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

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:29:37 -0700
"Brian J. Tarricone" <brian at tarricone.org> wrote:

> 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.

No, there definitely is no reason to force it. But I'd recommend it to
everyone because it helps in unifying release versions all across
Xfce and thus makes it easier for people to know what's experimental
and what's stable.

However, most goodies don't have stable/unstable cycles anyway, so ...

  - Jannis
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 197 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/attachments/20090805/1fc5f158/attachment.pgp>