Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release version numbers.

2014-10-22 Thread Brian Sidebotham
On 21 October 2014 23:25, Wayne Stambaugh stambau...@verizon.net wrote: 3.0.0 sounds good to me. Wayne I'm good with the triplet, and any number sounds fine to me! :D Best Regards, Brian. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release version numbers.

2014-10-21 Thread jp charras
Le 20/10/2014 17:33, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit : I'm going to comment on everything posted thus far. I don't have time to reply on each individual comment. I will say that I am not terribly thrilled with date style version. I'm not absolutely sure if it causes grief for package management

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release version numbers.

2014-10-21 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 10/21/2014 12:21 PM, jp charras wrote: Le 20/10/2014 17:33, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit : I'm going to comment on everything posted thus far. I don't have time to reply on each individual comment. I will say that I am not terribly thrilled with date style version. I'm not absolutely sure if

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release version numbers.

2014-10-20 Thread Carl Poirier
I feel like we wouldn't use the last digit much in a triplet number because, IIRC, backporting of fixes is not planned. That being said, I would also begin with at least 2.1, as Cirilo said. However, I personally vote for numbering the versions a la MATLAB. On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 1:34 AM, Nick

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release version numbers.

2014-10-20 Thread Andy Peters
On Oct 19, 2014, at 4:58 PM, Ian Woloschin i...@woloschin.com wrote: From a not-really-developer point of view, I do want to at least recommend the user of year-based release schemes, similar to how Ubuntu or MATLAB, as opposed to the more traditional triplet style numbering schemes.

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release version numbers.

2014-10-20 Thread Marco Ciampa
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 08:47:54AM -0400, Carl Poirier wrote: I feel like we wouldn't use the last digit much in a triplet number because, IIRC, backporting of fixes is not planned. That being said, I would also begin with at least 2.1, as Cirilo said. However, I personally vote for numbering

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release version numbers.

2014-10-20 Thread Tomasz Wlostowski
On 20.10.2014 17:25, Marco Ciampa wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 08:47:54AM -0400, Carl Poirier wrote: I feel like we wouldn't use the last digit much in a triplet number because, IIRC, backporting of fixes is not planned. That being said, I would also begin with at least 2.1, as Cirilo said.

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release version numbers.

2014-10-20 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
I'm going to comment on everything posted thus far. I don't have time to reply on each individual comment. I will say that I am not terribly thrilled with date style version. I'm not absolutely sure if it causes grief for package management systems such as apt-get or yum. I'm fine with

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release version numbers.

2014-10-20 Thread Benoît Roehr
For the love of G-d, whatever you do, don't adopt that Altium Season scheme ... Summer 2011 and what-not. Is Winter 2011 earlier or later than Winter 2010? What hemisphere are you in? I'm perfectly fine with the dotted-triplet thing, Major.minor.more-minor -a Yes, and also these make you fell

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release version numbers.

2014-10-20 Thread Benoît Roehr
Not a dev, but my 2 femto cents: I really like the #major.#minor.#dev - #buildNo scheme, but I would add these details about the version incrementation: 2.0 New release, majors changes over the 1.9. 2.1.0 Stable release with new features and bug fixes over 2.0.0. 2.1.25 Development version,

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release version numbers.

2014-10-20 Thread Nick Østergaard
2014-10-20 18:07 GMT+02:00 Benoît Roehr benoit.roehr...@gmail.com: Not a dev, but my 2 femto cents: I really like the #major.#minor.#dev - #buildNo scheme, but I would add these details about the version incrementation: A lot of info in there, read on. 2.0 New release, majors changes over

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release version numbers.

2014-10-20 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 10/20/2014 12:38 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote: 2014-10-20 18:07 GMT+02:00 Benoît Roehr benoit.roehr...@gmail.com: Not a dev, but my 2 femto cents: I really like the #major.#minor.#dev - #buildNo scheme, but I would add these details about the version incrementation: A lot of info in there,

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release version numbers.

2014-10-20 Thread Garth Corral
I agree with all points here, with one exception and one caveat. The exception is that it will not work well with git (not an issue here). Git commit IDs are not ordered and trying to use them as versions is a world of pain. You’ll just have to trust me on that. The caveat is that if you’re

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release version numbers.

2014-10-20 Thread Nick Østergaard
2014-10-20 19:00 GMT+02:00 Garth Corral gcor...@abode.com: I agree with all points here, with one exception and one caveat. The exception is that it will not work well with git (not an issue here). Git commit IDs are not ordered and trying to use them as versions is a world of pain.

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release version numbers.

2014-10-20 Thread Benoît Roehr
On 20/10/2014 18:53, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: On 10/20/2014 12:38 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote: 2014-10-20 18:07 GMT+02:00 Benoît Roehr benoit.roehr...@gmail.com: Not a dev, but my 2 femto cents: I really like the #major.#minor.#dev - #buildNo scheme, but I would add these details about the

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release version numbers.

2014-10-20 Thread Garth Corral
On Oct 20, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Nick Østergaard oe.n...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-10-20 19:00 GMT+02:00 Garth Corral gcor...@abode.com: I agree with all points here, with one exception and one caveat. The exception is that it will not work well with git (not an issue here). Git commit IDs are

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release version numbers.

2014-10-19 Thread Nick Østergaard
I have no objections. Using the triplet is the usual way and has some minor advantages over a serial numer, in that it it easier to see if big changes has been made, if the number is given as such. Personally I don't mind the serial numbering scheme although it can be confusing when close to the

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release version numbers.

2014-10-19 Thread Garth Corral
Here’s my thoughts from an outsiders perspective. Using proper version numbers is definitely the right way to go. Using commit numbers is a horrible way to version a project in my opinion. Overlapping numbers aside, the commit numbers are arbitrary and have no meaning with respect to the

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release version numbers.

2014-10-19 Thread Ian Woloschin
From a not-really-developer point of view, I do want to at least recommend the user of year-based release schemes, similar to how Ubuntu or MATLAB, as opposed to the more traditional triplet style numbering schemes. From what I've read here KiCad isn't going to be doing more than a couple of

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release version numbers.

2014-10-19 Thread Cirilo Bernardo
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Wayne Stambaugh stambau...@verizon.net wrote: In the past we have used the repo commit number as the stable version number. I'm not sure this is the best idea as there can be overlapping commit numbers in separate branches. I would like to propose using

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release version numbers.

2014-10-19 Thread Nick Østergaard
2014-10-20 7:19 GMT+02:00 Cirilo Bernardo cirilo.berna...@gmail.com: On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Wayne Stambaugh stambau...@verizon.net wrote: In the past we have used the repo commit number as the stable version number. I'm not sure this is the best idea as there can be overlapping