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

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On 08/05/2009 01:47 AM, Nick Schermer wrote:
> 2009/8/4 Brian J. Tarricone<brian at tarricone.org>:
>> 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...

It's not an exception if I never agreed with it in the first place.

The even/odd distinction is for core apps, but I wouldn't be so 
presumptuous as to force this on every project hosted on xfce.org.

	-brian