Brave new (1.0) world.

[Allison Randal]

chromatic wrote:
> On Friday 20 February 2009 09:55:28 Allison Randal wrote:
> 
>> Is there any more obvious way than 1.5 to say "This is the public
>> release half-way between 1.0 and 2.0"?
> 
> What does "half-way" mean?  What does "2.0" mean?
> 
> (Any answer to the first question other than "It's been six months" seems at 
> odds with how we actually schedule things.  Likewise "It's been a year" for 
> the second.)

Be careful of reading too much meaning into version numbers. On the 
whole, the X.0 and X.5 are signals to outside packagers "we're ready for 
you to package a new version" and to users not tracking monthly core 
development "this would be a good point to upgrade".

It's 4 months for 1.5, and 6 months through 3.5. At that point we might 
decide to increment the major version less frequently, to reflect the 
pace of core development (I expect more activity in language development 
than core development at that point). But, that's a decision to be made 
at the Parrot developer summit in the spring of 2011.

Allison