> I don't think we have the luxury of knowing when something breaks Granted, and that's not something we can really fix. *However, we can identify when our API changes in breaking ways*.
-Mike On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote: > I personally don't think semver really did fix anything in ruby-land > (but thats my opinion). Ruby has a crummy package system.The only one > worse is Pythons. > > Anyhow, I added a little bit about our releases in the wiki [1] and a > much longer post to the phonegap blog [2] to help folks better > understand the rational. To echo Fil, I don't think we have the luxury > of knowing when something breaks given the cat and mouse nature of the > project relationship to mobile operating system vendors. > > [1] http://wiki.apache.org/cordova/CuttingReleases > [2] > http://phonegap.com/2012/04/12/rolling-releases-how-apache-cordova-becomes-phonegap-and-why/ > > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Mike Reinstein > <reinstein.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I certainly don't meant to rehash something that has been discussed > > ad-nauseam. Nor am I advocating we change how often we release. I think > the > > key distinction is picking a version number that indicates breaking > change, > > compatible changes/new features, vs patches. Semantic versioning > provides a > > clean way to do specify this. In npm and ruby land, this has largely > fixed > > dependency hell, and has led to more reliable code re-use. > > > > Just a thought. > > > > http://semver.org > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Filip Maj <f...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > >> This discussion again :) > >> > >> http://apache.markmail.org/thread/l2et3r5v35efprgd > >> > >> > >> With a point release coming out every month or so that limits us to > being > >> able to "break" things every 10 months or so. With changing SDKs (see > iOS > >> 4.2, 5, and 6) sometimes we need to break things, like, asap. > >> > >> Other times we break things because we are assholes (from our users' > point > >> of view, at least :P ) > >> > >> On 10/3/12 2:21 PM, "Mike Reinstein" <reinstein.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> >I'm wondering if anyone else has given thought towards adopting > semantic > >> >versioning for our releases. In terms of making plugin development and > >> >version adoption less painful, this might be a good move. Thoughts? > >> > > >> >-Mike > >> > >> >
