Hi Folks, As of September 1st, I accepted a new job, and I'm currently still in the aftermath off finishing my home-improvement duties. On top of that, something has gone terribly wrong with moving my ADSL line, so I'm effectively still without an internet connection at home. Last year I volunteered as release manager, and with some recent talk of the desirability of another possible release sometime soon, I thought, I'd throw in my thoughts. With my move planned, I already knew that a release before the end of the year might be out of the question. However, a Christmas release, like we did last year, would most likely be possible from my perspective.
Given that we have an OSG branch that has undergone significant development this year, and a PLIB branch, with little or no development, I would strongly urge that the main release would be OSG based. However, having said that, I would not object against a small maintenance release of the PLIB branch. The latter would be just a wrap-up of the current source and data directories, but without extensive bug fixing. As for a version number scheme, I don't think this issue will generate a discussion that is as heated as the one we had for the 1.0.0 release. However, it might we worth a few thoughts. My proposal would be as follows: PLIB based maintenance release: 1.0.1 OSG based main release: 1.1.0 (or 1.2.0) The rationale being that the old plib version only increases in minor version to indicate that this is strictly a bugfix release. The OSG branch will ultimately become version number 2.0.0, but to indicate that we're not there yet, I believe that it would be a good idea to spawn off a new intermediate version number to indicate this fact. I know, in essence, a number is just a number. However, these version numbers have adopted some symbolic meaning over the years, and the scheme above seems to reflect our current state of development with reasonable accuracy IMHO. Thoughts / Questions? Cheers, Durk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
