stable/unstable versioning (was Re: ANNOUNCE: xfce4-weather-plugin 0.7.3 released)

Nick Schermer nickschermer at gmail.com
Wed Aug 5 10:47:44 CEST 2009


2009/8/4 Brian J. Tarricone <brian at tarricone.org>:
> On 08/04/2009 12:41 PM, Mike Massonnet wrote:
>>
>> Useless but maybe still worth mentionning, if you follow the
>> to-become-official release policy, the minor version should be even
>> numbers. I'm gonna change that for the next releases of the projects I
>> maintain, not right now, just when it's ready, there is no hurry ;-)
>
> I think this is kinda pointless for many of the smaller projects.  I don't
> intend to use the split versioning for any of my non-core stuff, as I never
> plan on having an unstable series for things like xfce4-volstatus-icon,
> xfce4-notifyd, etc.

Maybe, but why act different for small projects? Using even numbers is
not more work and if we ALL do this it's a good indication whether the
release is stable or not. The whole point of the release policy is
consistency, that's not gonne work if we're already starts making
exceptions...

Nick



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