On 1/10/07, iain duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-10-01 at 08:28 -0200, Jorge Godoy wrote: > > iain duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > The scheme is that even numbers in the second place ( ie 2.4, 2.6 ) > > > denote stable production releases, while odd numbers are the kernel in > > > active development. > > those numbers are from way before source code versioning systems where mayor and although I do agree it's a good practice they follow the old practice that a change in version (first number) is only done on a full rewrite or a huge architecture change (take gnome for example).
> > I prefer that every release is suitable for production unless it has an 'a', > > 'b' or 'dev' in it (for 'alpha', 'beta' and 'development' versions). 'rc' > > are > > 'release candidates' so they should change very little. > > as Godoy pointed out today we have a huge structure in front of that for the "unstable" releases and with that we can have new feature every release. > > The idea is reducing the timeframe from one relese to another. very important. > My beef with that is that it does not as rigidly enforce the > *separation* of dev and production releases, dev is a CO from trunk or a alpha,beta,rc,etc. everything else is prod? it does put a rigidly separation > which is IMHO the specific > problem facing gears. But of course there are no doubt good reasons in > the other direction too. ;) > well I believe your refering to the fact that a lot of people where using the lastest alpha, this was the product of two things, before 1.0 everyone is running dev in production. and the fact that the lastest alpha's stayed out there for "too long". > Iain > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
