On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 03:01:15PM -0500, Steven Hazel wrote: > Michael Carmack <karmak at w3.org> writes: > > > Whereas a jump to 0.3.8.2 "feels" less significant than a jump to > > 0.3.9 and one could argue for choosing to version this way, I'm not > > sure it's really that useful developers or users. A more logical > > versioning scheme might use major/minor/subminor numbers, where the > > major number gets incremented when backwards compatibility is > > broken, the minor number gets incremented when new features are > > added (forward compatibility is broken), and the subminor number > > gets incremented when neither forwards nor backwards compatibility > > is broken (e.g. bugfixes, added documentation, etc). > > In fact, that is the scheme we're using. But everyone here is too > gutless to release a 1.0, so it's 0.major.minor.micro.
Actually, the reason I emailed this to the list was because I thought I saw some debate over whether the next release should be called 0.3.8.2 or 0.3.9. Using a major.minor.subminor versioning scheme I wouldn't expect there to be any room for such debates. I tend to skim some of my emails though, so perhaps I misunderstood what was being discussed. m. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl >From devl-admin at freenetproject.org Sat Apr 7 16:41:15 2001 Return-Path: <devl-admin at freenetproject.org> Received: from hawk.freenetproject.org (postfix@[4.18.42.11]) by funky.danky.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA06202 for <danello at danky.com>; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 16:41:14 -0400 Received: from hawk.freenetproject.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hawk.freenetproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 724345807D; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 13:23:05 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: devl at freenetproject.org Received: from gw.localdomain (cs589857-a.mtwh1.on.wave.home.com [24.68.44.193]) by hawk.freenetproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16E2758073 for <devl at freenetproject.org>; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 13:22:05 -0700 (PDT)
