"Chad" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Good afternoon, > > This morning I bumped the revision number to 2.0[0]. Some > people on IRC didn't like this, so I reverted it and I'm bringing > it here. I don't think anyone really wants to keep doing 1.x > releases (people seriously get confused that 1.10 comes after > 1.6). The following suggestions have been put forward: > > - Drop the 1 from 1.17.x and make the releases start counting > from 17.x, 18.x, etc. > - Bump 1.x to 2.0 and move forward from there. > - Drop numbers entirely, and pick silly names > > Thoughts? > > -Chad > > [0] http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/66923
I really fail to see any advantage to throwing away the major.minor version schema. If people are misinterpreting 1.15 as being less than 1.6, and are determined to continue to believe that despite all our best efforts to the contrary, then joggling the numbers around a little is really not going to improve their experience of MediaWiki; getting the wrong version is really the least of their worries. I do agree that dropping 1.6, or at least restoring the "this is the ancient version, don't use it unless you really have to" messages that I definitely remember but which seem to have vanished, might be beneficial overall; but I really don't see any point in changing schemas for the sake of it. I'm very much up for a MW 2.0 where we take the opportunity to clear out some of the many nasty idiosyncracies that we've accumulated over the past seven years; but I see no problem with continuing 1.xx indefinitely until that time, and no point in 'invoking' a major version change for a release which is not really any different to other recent releases. If we're going to bite the bullet and *make* 1.17 worthy of a new major version, then fair enough. But I haven't seen that happen yet. --HM _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
