Re: Versioning/release policy proposal

2006-10-22 Thread Adam Fedor
Most people seem to agree with this, as well as I. Plus it appears to roughly follow Helge's suggestions (although I admit I'm confused by that still). Anyway, I've added this in slightly edited form to our release policy: http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/GNUstep_release_policy On Oct 5,

Fwd: Versioning/release policy proposal

2006-10-06 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
: Versioning/release policy proposal This is a proposal for conventions to be adopted for releasing GNUstep packages ... the idea being that something like this could be added to our FAQ and used as a reference for making releases and to some extent guiding what changes we allow into trunk

Re: Fwd: Versioning/release policy proposal

2006-10-06 Thread Dennis Leeuw
Fedor [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gregory John Casamento [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nicola Pero [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Developer GNUstep gnustep-dev@gnu.org Subject: Versioning/release policy proposal This is a proposal for conventions to be adopted for releasing GNUstep packages ... the idea being that something

Re: Versioning/release policy proposal

2006-10-06 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
On 6 Oct 2006, at 12:04, Dennis Leeuw wrote: , the only thing I miss is a rationale for the use of the SONAME with a major.minor structure, instead of the more common major. I think this would help in the understanding why, and resulting in less discussion. I have no real idea of what's

Re: Fwd: Versioning/release policy proposal

2006-10-06 Thread Fred Kiefer
I like this proposal very much, there is one area, where I see problems, but we could wait until we actually face them. This is the question, who will be willing to work on the bugfix releases? Most developers will spend their time and efforts on the new unstable release, then somebody needs to

Re: Versioning/release policy proposal

2006-10-06 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
On 6 Oct 2006, at 19:16, Fred Kiefer wrote: I like this proposal very much, there is one area, where I see problems, but we could wait until we actually face them. This is the question, who will be willing to work on the bugfix releases? Most developers will spend their time and efforts on