On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmich...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 12:53:17PM +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Moritz Lenz <mor...@faui2k3.org> wrote: >> >> > Given the current version number scheme (year.month), it's highly >> > unlikely that we'll ever see a Rakudo 1.0. >> > >> > So I'd change that to "after a production release of a Perl 6 compiler" >> >> People might be expecting that when Rakudo is ready it would have a >> 1.0 release. I sure did. Using year + month is nice in a way, but it >> means that you don't immediately know if the release is production vs >> devel, or whether it's a major vs minor release. > > Out of curiosity (because I think it will illuminate some of the difficulty > Rakudo devs have in declaring something to be a "production release"): > > - What constitues a "production release"? > - What was the first production release of Perl 4? > - What was the first production release of Perl 5? > - What was the first production release of Linux? > - At what point was each of the above declared a "production release"; > was it concurrent with the release, or some time afterwards?
I think it largely depends on who do you ask and I believe there will be a huge gap between private people and company people. Or between people who are involved in open source development and in-house developers. I guess most people won't even be able to answer those questions. While I am sure everyone has clear definitions and objective measurements <grin> in the end most of us just have a feeling of "ok, this is good enough". (We just don't talk about it publicly.) Some kind of an official blessing is needed by most of us. This can be Larry for Perl or Patrick for Rakudo or having it "supplied by our vendor" (e.g. Ubuntu, Red Hat or ActiveState). I think this is much less needed by the people on this list and involved more or less in Perl 6 and needed a lot more by people external to the process. Or did you mean "declared by the developers themselves"? Gabor
