Hi Raoul, OK, good feedback on the version number scheme - it has been sitting this (confusing) way all time since the early days of rsyslog... Probably a sufficiently good cleanup would be to go to 4.x and the follow a reasonable scheme from then on...
But besides that: how do you feel about the facts other then the version numbering? Rainer > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:rsyslog- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raoul Bhatia [IPAX] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 5:04 PM > To: rsyslog-users > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] rsyslog 3.0.0 stable? - feedback, please > > Rainer Gerhards wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > a question on the forum > > (http://www.rsyslog.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-p-1113.phtml#1113 ) and a > bit > > asking around finally made me think about the possibility of a v3 > stable > > version, something that dangled on my mind for a while now... While > it > > is just three month since v2 stable, we have gone a long way and > during > > that time the new queue engine has much matured. As "development" > state > > is most often a show-stopper for putting code into production, I > think > > about releasing a 3.0.0 stable (based on the most recent 3.12.x > version > > WITHOUT RELP support). > > > >>From a support perspective, I'd like to continue support v2 stable > and > > obviously v3 stable and development concurrently. Development would > > continue with 3.13.0 (RELP support), and 3.0.0 would only receive bug > > fixes. Some time from now, 3.<whatever>.<whatever> would become 3.1.0 > > stable. At this point, I would drop support/fixing for 3.0.<whatever> > > and ask users with problems in the branch to update to > 3.1.<whatever>. > > i guess this will cause serious headake because people tend to think > like this: > > 3.0.x is less mature/was released before > 3.1.x is less mature/was released before > 3.12.x is less mature/was released before > 3.13.x > > i guess there should be a deliberate versioning scheme. examples are: > > - versioning similar to the linux kernel > - release 3.12.x as 3.12.x-stable and continue development without this > tag. > - something else > > but i guess its no good to jump from 3.12.x back to 3.0.x and from a > future revision such as 3.40.x back to 3.1.x > > cheers, > raoul > -- > ____________________________________________________________________ > DI (FH) Raoul Bhatia M.Sc. email. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Technischer Leiter > > IPAX - Aloy Bhatia Hava OEG web. http://www.ipax.at > Barawitzkagasse 10/2/2/11 email. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 1190 Wien tel. +43 1 3670030 > FN 277995t HG Wien fax. +43 1 3670030 15 > ____________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog
