version numbers

[kjstol]

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:21 AM, François Perrad
<francois.perrad at gadz.org>wrote:

> 2009/2/1 kjstol <parrotcode at gmail.com>:
> >
> > I was doing a first read of the release managers' guide as preparation of
> my
> > first release (eek!), and at the end I noticed the following:
> > [..]
> >  - June 16, 2009     - 1.3   - whiteknight
> >  - July 21, 2009     - 1.5   - cotto
> > [...]
> > Now, I know that there's been discussion about releases and their version
> > numbers (I attended it!), but somehow the jump from 1.3 to 1.5 seems
> > slightly weird. I'm all fine with it, but for outsiders it just seems
> weird;
> > that's my main concern. Now, if the explanation is, that we're doing
> monthly
> > releases that increment the minor release number by 1 each time, but each
> 6
> > months (except first time, which is 3 months) we go to the next x.0 or
> x.5,
> > then that's fine, but it should be made clear. People will be confused if
> > everytime we skip one or two minor releases (to go to the .0 or .5
> release).
> > just a thought,
> > kjs
> >
> >
>
> I think we forget that we use a three part version.


No. On the Parrot Developer Summit the decision was made to use a
major.minor versioning system, as explained in
http://www.parrot.org/news/vision-for-1_0

>
> Feb 0.9.1
> March 1.0.0
> April 1.0.1
> or April 1.1.0 if new feature (or  incompatible change)
> ...
> July 1.5.0
> August 1.5.1
> or August 1.6.0 if new feature (or incompatible change)
> ...
>
> In fact, we cannot predicate the version numbers (except x.0.0 and x.5.0).
> As written in release_manager_guide.pod :
> " Version numbers for each release will be determined each month,
>  and will depend on the features actually present in that release. "
>
> François.


I think this will change after the 1.0 release; the release_manager_guide is
probably going to be updated to reflect that. The release numbers after 1.0
will become more predictable.

b.t.w. after re-reading I noticed that the 'skipping of the minor monthly
release only happens once in the first 6 months, so I guess my email about
this was a bit premature..

kjs
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