+1 marketing.major.minor
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Sean Busbey <bus...@cloudera.com> wrote: > When explaining X.major.minor versioning to people, I generally refer to X > as the "marketing" version. It gets incremented when the project wants to > push for a separation in the minds of users. > > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Josh Elser <josh.el...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > That is a good point. > > > > We typically have referred to 1.x releases as "major". I will say that > > when I wrote up the Git document, I wrote it based on how we refer to our > > versions, not necessarily using correct semantic versioning verbage. > > > > Is the "1" or "1.6.0" the "super-major" version? :P > > > > > > On 10/25/13 12:43 PM, Sean Busbey wrote: > > > >> On the feature freeze reminder thread, Chris said: > >> > >> I don't mind putting things off to 1.7 (if necessary). But... if 1.6.0 > >>> isn't sufficiently feature rich, there's not really a reason to > >>> release it just yet... until those features are ready. That said, I do > >>> think there'll be enough features in 1.6.0 to release it as a minor > >>> release, if we're interpreting the version as the standard > >>> <major>.<minor>.<bugfix> scheme, even if we end up pushing some stuff > >>> off to 1.7. > >>> > >> > >> I didn't want to derail that thread, but this does not line up with what > >> I've seen in Accumulo. (Though I agree that it is a common numbering > >> scheme[1]) > >> > >> The Accumulo release guide[2] doesn't specify how "minor" and "major" > turn > >> into positions in the version number. However, the git workflow guide[3] > >> does, and basically says that Accumulo uses > >> > >> x.y.z > >> > >> y = major > >> z = minor > >> > >> This also lines up with my understanding of previous Accumulo releases > and > >> cross-compatibility amongst them. > >> > >> > >> [1]: http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.**html< > http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html> > >> [2]: http://accumulo.apache.org/**governance/releasing.html< > http://accumulo.apache.org/governance/releasing.html> > >> [3]: http://accumulo.apache.org/**git.html#release-management< > http://accumulo.apache.org/git.html#release-management> > >> > >> > > > -- > Sean >
