On Sep 22, 2009, at 2:57 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Stephen John Smoogen <[email protected]> writes: > >> For developers it probably sounds good... but for business managers >> being sold on it, it does not make as much sense. They like boring >> things numbered versions and such. The higher the sell the more they >> want a nice solid IBM like number. > > I think Luke's point (which I agree with) is that it should get a > version > number when it's released, chosen based on how much stuff made it > into the > release. In other words, if the changes and stability feel 1.0-ish, > it > should be 1.0, but if it turns out that when it's released it's not > 1.0-ish-feeling, it should be released as 0.26. But the idea is to > make > that decision very late in the release process rather than early so > that > people aren't talking about "this will be in 0.26" or "that will be in > 1.0" and then have to have their expectations reset.
Exactly. I early on said that 0.25 would have RESTful stuff, and it was taking long enough that we had to start putting out 0.24 releases with a lot of features in them, rather than incrementing them to 0.25 like they should have been. > > The Debian project did something very similar for years, although at > this > point has switched to a model of simply incrementing the major release > version for every new full release. I expect once 1.0 is out, we'll increment the full version relatively often. -- Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick, "How to Build a Universe" --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
