On Friday 22 August 2008 5:32:09 am Aidan Skinner wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Alan Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I haven't made the change in case it needs discussion - we can probably > > find some combo of characters that works if we absolutely must (maybe > > 0.3.incubatorM3 would work...) but I don't feel like farting around > > testing all the things that might break if we can just use a normal, > > sane numeric major.minor version like most of the software universe. > > There's a legal reason for using incubating in the artifcat name[1], > so the tarfile will still have that in there, the spec itself should > be ok as 0.3 though. On graduation we'd need to change our names to > apache-qpid instead of qpid- >
Why wait till graduation? You probably should do that now if you're going to rebuild things (which you have to do for the java stuff at the minimum due to the missing LICENSE/etc...) Dan > I do think we should also have a discussion about changing from > milestones to regular (kernel/apr style[2]) numbering for everything > though, s/M/0/ essentially. So perhaps apache-qpid-0.4.0 for the next > one maybe? > > Messing with Obsoletes: and the like is probably best done sooner and > later from downstreams perspective. > > - Aidan > > [1] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#naming > [2] http://apr.apache.org/versioning.html -- Daniel Kulp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Principal Engineer IONA Technologies
