I would also prefer some date based release numbering a la IntelliJ rather than semantic versioning, for all the reasons that Jesse has spelled out.
On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 2:45 PM Jesse Glick <jgl...@cloudbees.com> wrote: > I do not think switching to a 3.x version number accomplishes much of > anything (even if we had done so several weeks ago, when the big > changes were landing). I would much rather see Jenkins switch to > either a date-based scheme, or just some opaque incrementing number > like we have but without the meaningless `2.` prefix. Jenkins releases > break compatibility for someone, somehow, all the time; a number tells > you nothing about whether _you_ will be affected. We need to publish > clear, concise upgrade guides; encourage users to make backups or use > a config-as-code workflow; and of course try as hard as we can to not > break compatibility to begin with! In the case of JEP-227 & JEP-228 > there have already been extensive plugin fixes released and few users > should actually be affected. Tables-to-divs has apparently caused more > regressions, but these should all be fixable long before the LTS. > > In theory SemVer could be useful for libraries. In practice it seems > like a false promise to me. It is your tests which will tell you if an > upgrade is compatible, not some upstream maintainer’s fantasy. > Dependabot actually _keeps score_ and tells you whether a given update > broke CI for other people, which seems like far more valuable > information. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CANfRfr0JZtW1x17eeUSVQzfAJgck08jVnfZ0%3DN4reZZ7RYx6fA%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- Website: http://earl-of-code.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAPiUgVfmdhs-_yOpiWAwsgeocz_Mu6U1xD8xuq0m1m-7XBEO8g%40mail.gmail.com.
