Fully agree with David.

Regards
JB

On 08/02/2019 16:34, David Bosschaert wrote:
> Hi Georg,
> 
> Version numbers starting with 0.x have a special meaning in that they
> communicate that the API is non-final. You did this release recently so
> that's great.
> 
> A major version of the release declares compatibility, staying within the
> same major means that at least consumers can expect compatibility.
> Switching to the next major version is effectively saying: everyone needs
> to change. So really it means that it's a completely different API
> (although it might resemble another version of the API).
> I would actually argue that there technically no ordering between major
> version numbers (technically version 4 could come after version 5) although
> humans like to think that there is ordering between 4 and 5 as a major
> version number.
> 
> Because the artifacts are in a different namespace (now Felix, was Sling)
> you could just start with major version 1 again. However maybe people find
> that confusing. You could also start with version 314 or whatever number,
> but I guess people would slightly raise their eyebrows about that too.
> I guess the least surprising option would be to go with either 1.x or 2.x.
> If you think that 2.x is less confusing then I would have no problem with
> that.
> 
> The one thing that I would be a little cautious about is switching from a
> 0.x to a API-fixed release. Normally there would be a little more time
> between this so that people have the time to work with it and potentially
> find problems with.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> David
> 
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 at 07:21, Georg Henzler <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> before starting a release vote again and starting discussing the version
>> number there, let's try to find an agreement before :)
>>
>> So now that we have had a test release 0.1.1 I think everybody would be
>> ok to move to versions >=1.0.0 I suppose. For developers implementing
>> against the health check API and annotations I think it is important to
>> quickly be able to tell apart newer from older without digging in
>> documentation (which often just does not happen, then developers do the
>> wrong thing). So for me it would be important to use a version number
>> higher than the following two Sling maven artifacts:
>>
>> org.apache.sling:org.apache.sling.hc.annotations:1.0.6
>> org.apache.sling:org.apache.sling.hc.api:1.0.2
>>
>> So for
>> org.apache.felix:org.apache.felix.healthcheck.annotation
>> org.apache.felix:org.apache.felix.healthcheck.api
>> I would suggest to use at least 1.0.8 and 1.0.4 respectively.
>>
>> For the modules core, generalchecks and webconsoleplugin it is just a
>> version number and it does not really matter. Also for the OSGi package
>> export version of the two API packages it could be anything really.
>>
>> So we have the following options:
>>
>> 1) everything 1.0.0 is not a good option (because then it's not clear
>> enough that Felix API/annotations are newer than Sling)
>> 2) everything 1.1.0 (would work for me)
>> 3) everything 1.5.0 (would work for me)
>> 4) everything 2.0.0 (what I proposed initially, still my favorite)
>> 5) mixed approach of using 1.0.8 and 1.0.4 for annotations/api, 1.0.0
>> for everything else (where it does not matter)
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> -Georg
>>
>>
>>
> 

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