Re: [Vxl-maintainers] [Vxl-users] VXL 1.7 Has been released

[Amitha P. <pe...@cs...>]

I'm with Brendan on this one. Frequent releases are good, because, as
a user, you don't really know when the CVS status is good. VXL is
generally in a "good" state, but it does have short periods of
badness.

As for the version numbering, I think it's entirely upto the software
developers. I mean, we could just label them vxl-2006-12-04 and so
on. Or "vxl 2005", to copy a prominent software company. The concept
of major, minor and patch versions implies a software development
process that understands what constitutes a major change, a minor
change, and a patch. We just don't have such a process, nor personnel
to manage the process should we decide on one. In fact, we could
barely schedule a release until Brendan took over the job of packaging
regularly.

(BTW, we've had similar discussions before on this list. Should be in
the archives. Of course, it's good to revisit issues from time to
time.)

Amitha.