On Sep 22, 2009, at 3:02 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Russ Allbery <[email protected]> > 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. >> >> 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. > > The issue I have run into is that when management is planning to roll > out/buy a new product they are happier with numbers than "well > currently we are working on Fuzzy Doggie. It may become 1.0 next > year." It causes them all kinds of anxiety :/.
I sympathize, but I'm a bit gunshy at the moment. :) -- Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -- George Bernard Shaw --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
