Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-09 Thread Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich
On 2013-01-04, at 14:52 , Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 03:21:08PM -0500, Rogan Hamby wrote: I would disagree. It's not this one: http://www.open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=versioning But, I would propose that we are following one based largely on the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-09 Thread Kathy Lussier
Hi Alexey, I think a lot of the Is it going to be a huge pain to upgrade? Or is it just a minor upgrade? angst would be diminished if we (devs and release managers) did a better job of communicating expectations about each upcoming release. We pledged to do this at EGConf 2012 and had a good

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-09 Thread Dan Scott
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 02:07:58PM -0500, Kathy Lussier wrote: Hi Alexey, I think a lot of the Is it going to be a huge pain to upgrade? Or is it just a minor upgrade? angst would be diminished if we (devs and release managers) did a better job of communicating expectations about each

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-07 Thread Dan Wells
-- * Daniel Wells, Library Programmer Analyst d...@calvin.edu Hekman Library at Calvin College 616.526.7133 On 1/4/2013 at 3:52 PM, Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net wrote: In the end, I'd really like to not have this

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-07 Thread Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich
On 2013-01-07, at 09:46 , Dan Wells d...@calvin.edu wrote: -- * Daniel Wells, Library Programmer Analyst d...@calvin.edu Hekman Library at Calvin College 616.526.7133 On 1/4/2013 at 3:52 PM, Dan Scott

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-07 Thread Jason Etheridge
Or, in honor of the new year, I'd like to suggest we bump the version to 10.0 and start working our way down to 0.0. This plan has the following advantages: - we would probably get the project 15 minutes of fame on Slashdot or something - it meets Galen's monotonicity requirement, so we

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-07 Thread Jason Stephenson
On 01/07/2013 01:23 PM, Jason Etheridge wrote: I'm with you, but if we do ever go past zero and into negative numbers, I want a green screen telnet interface for staff use. You can have that now: http://git.mvlcstaff.org/?p=jason/issa.git;a=summary -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-05 Thread Cynthia Williamson
Hi All - it has been pointed out to me off list that mentioning Horizon 8 to the Evergreen crowd is akin to flame baiting - just want to repeat here what I said off list - that was not my intent, I was simply trying to say that I think the versioning thing is probably a systems/developers woe and

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Jason Stephenson
Quoting Justin Hopkins jus...@mobiusconsortium.org: Why are we so focused on the numbering scheme? I don't think the time spent worrying about what number we are on does anything to improve the project. I pretty much agree with you. However, version numbers are important to end users and

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Bill Erickson
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Thomas Berezansky tsb...@mvlc.org wrote: On the subject of the proposed scheme: I disagree with the last digit of the year. If we are going with any form of date-based numbering then I think we should go for last 2 digits of the year with the second number

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Jason Stephenson
Quoting Sharp, Chris csh...@georgialibraries.org: As long as the tagged git version and the tarball match, I have no problem with suggesting either, but I think tarballs are standard and expected in F/LOSS projects. They are becoming less so as more projects switch to git or some other

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich
On 2013-01-03, at 18:35 , Justin Hopkins jus...@mobiusconsortium.org wrote: Why are we so focused on the numbering scheme? I don't think the time spent worrying about what number we are on does anything to improve the project. For our organization, managing expectations and perceptions of

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich
On 2013-01-04, at 08:47 , Jason Stephenson jstephen...@mvlc.org wrote: Quoting Justin Hopkins jus...@mobiusconsortium.org: Why are we so focused on the numbering scheme? I don't think the time spent worrying about what number we are on does anything to improve the project. I pretty much

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Just to throw another perspective in hereI DO think the fact that Evergreen is still on version 2.x matters. I might not use the word stagnating, but it creates the impression of large ship slowly making its way when in fact, I know some of the changes have been huge. Giving the version

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Thomas Berezansky
Git doesn't require a local git server. You can use git as a client only, you don't even need SSH keys in the community server. git clone git://git.evergreen-ils.org/Evergreen.git will make an Evergreen folder very similar to a tarball extraction, though initially set to master. Add

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich
On 2013-01-04, at 08:50 , Thomas Berezansky tsb...@mvlc.org wrote: On the subject of the proposed scheme: I disagree with the last digit of the year. If we are going with any form of date-based numbering then I think we should go for last 2 digits of the year with the second number being

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich
On 2013-01-04, at 09:07 , Bill Erickson ber...@esilibrary.com wrote: As soon as we moved to time based releases, it seems like everyone, including myself, starting referring to the releases by their release date.. e.g. the 2013 Fall Release. I was mildly against it at first, but including

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Galen Charlton
Hi, On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Bill Erickson ber...@esilibrary.com wrote: If we decide to change, I would also vote for the Ubuntu-style naming scheme Thomas describes. (IIRC, Jason S. was also a proponent of this scheme). All that I ask of a version number that it increase

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Joshua Lamos
://www.emeralddata.net - Original Message - From: Thomas Berezansky tsb...@mvlc.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 11:26:37 AM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme Git

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Thomas, Thanks for that explanation. If that's the case I'm all for encouraging people to move in that direction and we should make sure we have good documentation of that approach whenever possible (which we may already...) Lori On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Thomas Berezansky

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread James Fournie
Just thought I'd throw this out there Here's an interesting proposal that I encountered last week called Semantic Versioning, which isn't super different from what is being done now. http://semver.org/ The only challenge with this is defining a public API -- while we have the various OpenSRF API

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Rogan Hamby
I'm not sure I agree that version numbers aren't important to marketing Evergreen. Non-techie administrators have been trained to see large numbers before the dot meaning that there should be a lot of major features and that small numbers after it means that those features are mature and bug

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
For those of us not up-to-date in our Order Theory studies, would Galen care to explain what monotonically refers to in this discussion. Intrigued in Petaluma On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Rogan Hamby rogan.ha...@yclibrary.netwrote: I'm not sure I agree that version numbers aren't important

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Kathy Lussier
Hi all, I've been sitting on the sidelines of this discussion because I count myself as one of those people who doesn't particularly care about a version numbering system, but is very concerned with consistent release schedules and the new features/bug fixes that make up a release. The

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 01/04/2013 10:33 AM, Kathy Lussier wrote: I disagree that there is a perception that Evergreen is stagnating because we're still at 2.x, but if the problem is that we really should be at 3.0 or 4.0 because of the big changes that have come with recent releases, then maybe the solution is

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich
On 2013-01-04, at 12:47 , Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com wrote: On 01/04/2013 10:33 AM, Kathy Lussier wrote: I disagree that there is a perception that Evergreen is stagnating because we're still at 2.x, but if the problem is that we really should be at 3.0 or 4.0 because of the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich
On 2013-01-04, at 12:04 , Rogan Hamby rogan.ha...@yclibrary.net wrote: If we move to a new versioning scheme I just want it to have enough of an advantage that it will be worth re-educating people who can't follow the discussion that's on this list. I think the main advantage of moving to

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Rogan Hamby
I would disagree. It's not this one: http://www.open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=versioning But, I would propose that we are following one based largely on the developer's perception of what are major and minor features and impact for users. I've been there for a few of those discussions and

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Rogan Hamby
As a postscript, P.S. My previous statements are not an argument against change. As I said before, I have nothing against eating my liver hash (apologies to those who like liver) for greater health but I want the benefit to be clear and substantial for the hassle I can guarantee you I (and

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich
On 2013-01-04, at 09:49 , Sharp, Chris csh...@georgialibraries.org wrote: Hi all, * The current scheme creates a perception that Evergreen is stagnating - version 2 since 2010 I don't agree with this. It took years and years for the Linux kernel to move from major version 2 to major

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich
On 2013-01-04, at 14:23 , Rogan Hamby rogan.ha...@yclibrary.net wrote: As a postscript, P.S. My previous statements are not an argument against change. As I said before, I have nothing against eating my liver hash (apologies to those who like liver) for greater health but I want

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Galen Charlton
Hi, And in this case, the order being determined by time. In particular, if we were to adopt Ubuntu-style version numbers and release a 13.04, that it would be a niceness to not pull a Windows and decide next year to release 4.0. Regards, Galen On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Rogan Hamby

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley
Alexey, I think you're way off when you say that there's a wider audience dealing with Evergreen directly than with PostgreSQL and Linux. You must know that the former has many thousands of direct users, and the latter millions. Plenty of people concerned with those projects are in the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Dan Scott
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 03:21:08PM -0500, Rogan Hamby wrote: I would disagree. It's not this one: http://www.open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=versioning But, I would propose that we are following one based largely on the developer's perception of what are major and minor features and

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Rogan Hamby
I will concur with Lebbeous that library directors do learn about PostgreSQL and Linux - not in the same way, not based on the same data points that a systems administrator does but they do. And that's a bit of my point, the versioning is a data point short cut for them, a short hand if you will

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Rogan Hamby
Just to play devil's advocate one man's stagnation is another man's stability. Trust me, I have plenty of folks that would love to see just a stream of tiny little releases that didn't rock the boat any. It's dangerous to say what the whole community thinks without a lot of research, which kind

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 01/04/2013 12:30 PM, Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich wrote: * Under the current scheme Evergreen will reach version 3 in 2016(!) I don't see this as a problem… It is not a problem per se, except if perceived as stagnation by those who are not following Evergreen development closely This

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Joe
I wasn't planning on jumping into this conversation, but as someone who is not truly a tech professional, but has been thrust into the role over the last few years, I think the one important point to make about Evergreen versus Linux or SQL is that what version I'm running seems to matter much

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich
Thank you, Joe. You explained with so much clarity exactly what I was trying to say about comparing Evergreen with Linux, PostgreSQL, or other FOSS projects. On 2013-01-04, at 15:15 , Joe knuev...@oplin.org wrote: I wasn't planning on jumping into this conversation, but as someone who is not

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Justin Hopkins
I think Dan hit the nail on the head, especially with his first and last paragraphs. Justin Hopkins Manager Information Technology 573-808-2309 On 1/4/13 2:52 PM, Dan Scott wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 03:21:08PM -0500, Rogan Hamby wrote: I would disagree. It's not this one:

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich
On 2013-01-04, at 16:38 , Justin Hopkins jus...@mobiusconsortium.org wrote: I think Dan hit the nail on the head, especially with his first and last paragraphs. Justin, it was clear from your first response to my post that you seem to be frustrated that I brought up this topic. Even though

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Cynthia Williamson
Hello: I won't pretend to understand all of the options re version schema discussed herein but as non-techie, I can certainly say that I've never worried at all about how our versions are numbered. I truly don't understand the fuss. I certainly know what version of Windows I'm using, but

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-03 Thread Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich
Hello. I would like to propose a change to the official Evergreen versioning scheme. Rather than then the current scheme that attempts to tie version numbers to various code changes, I propose that we switch to a more simple and predictable calendar-related scheme that better aligns with the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-03 Thread Justin Hopkins
Why are we so focused on the numbering scheme? I don't think the time spent worrying about what number we are on does anything to improve the project. I suspect this is coming up because of bericks recent post about release scheduling - which I (personally) do think would improve the project.