From: Rob F. <ga...@ro...> - 2004-09-01 16:52:25
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v84.0! ;) It really is a weird decision to make because no matter what you decide, there will be people that are confused. Sean Egan wrote: >0.82.1 officially broke our versioning system. > >In case you didn't know, our versioning system was entirely >sequential. 0.82 was the 82nd release of Gaim ever. Even though >0.82.1 isn't much of a "release" on its own, it defies the versioning >system. What to do? > >We could go on, and pretend nothing ever happened. Make the next >release 0.83, and act as if 0.82.1 isn't really a release (which I >would have to admit is not far from truth, as it's just "another half >of a patch," really). In this case the dot-one is really just a build >number, I suppose. > >We could make the next release 0.84, skip 0.83. That would make 0.84 >the 84th release ever of Gaim, but people might get confused. "What >happened to 0.83," they would ask. I don't see that as much of a >problem. > >Or, we can take the opportunity to create an entirely new versioning >scheme. This would help the people who are constantly confused that >0.x means "doesn't work well" and stay away from Gaim because of it. >I would personally consider "Gaim v84", i.e. dropping the 0. >altogether. That fits more with the whole "this is the 84th version >of Gaim ever," thing, anyway. > >Opine. > >-s. > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop >FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! >Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. >http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click >_______________________________________________ >Gaim-devel mailing list >Gai...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gaim-devel > > > > |