On 5/26/2010 3:00 PM, Chad wrote: > 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.
This seems kinda odd. Then we have the issue of people wondering why we go 1.16.0 -> 17.0. (Where did the other number go? What happened to versions 2-16?) > - Bump 1.x to 2.0 and move forward from there. I think we should go to 2.0 eventually, but it should wait until we add some major new feature(s) and/or make some big breaking change that will require changes to lots of extensions or for people to do something more than just run update.php to upgrade. > - Drop numbers entirely, and pick silly names Ew, no. Besides the confusion issue others have noted, it also creates issues with things like bot frameworks or anything else automated that may need to check the version of a wiki. Rather than simply checking against less than/equal/greater than a number, they have to maintain a mapping of name->number. > > Thoughts? I would support dropping the 1.6 branch from the download listings and dropping support for it (if we haven't already; the last release was more than a year ago). PHP apparently stopped releasing security updates for PHP4 nearly 2 years ago.[1] Are there any statistics for the download server so that we could see how many people are actually downloading 1.6? [1] http://www.php.net/archive/2007.php#2007-07-13-1 -- Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
