On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Stephan Kulow
Am Montag, 12. Juli 2010, 17:27:18 schrieb Greg Freemyer:
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Stephan Kulow
wrote: Am Montag 12 Juli 2010 schrieb Greg Freemyer:
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Stephan Kulow
wrote: Am Montag 12 Juli 2010 schrieb Michael Loeffler:
On Monday 12 July 2010 15:07:18 Pavol Rusnak wrote: > On 07/12/2010 03:05 PM, Peter Albrecht wrote: > > Is it really? To me it always has been obvious that the numbering > > scheme was as Chuck mentioned. > > Exactly, but it seems this is going to change now, because we'll be > having 11.4 and maybe even 11.5 (read email by Michael Loeffler > above in this thread). If we want to avoid more confusion, we > really have to document this.
Fully agreed, it needs documentation. Its better then guessing. I strongly propose to give the upcoming version the name openSUSE 11.4 as rushing this makes things more likely worse then they are and I don't see agreement on any of the discussed version schemes. I'm oppose to change the scheme to the sake of change but I'm open to change it to improve it.
OK, so let's kill this thread: the openSUSE versioning scheme is as is: we have 11.X till we see a reason to jump to 12.0 - from then on we'll have 12.X. This X is increasing every 8 months.
3 months before release of every 11.X we'll discuss on opensuse-factory if the changes in 11.X are worth a 12.0. The board then will decide - this is not exactly a technical decision, it's only a collection of gut feelings that need to be collected. IMO a board's task.
Reasons for a 12.0 from my point of view are: - drastic changes in user experience during installation or the way linux works - drastic changes in the base system that make it much harder than usual to do live updates.
But again: I wouldn't try to describe the exact algorithm a new major version is picked upon, but make it an open process triggered by a timeline.
Greetings, Stephan
So you want to wait until 3 months before 11.4/12.0 to decide? That seems way too late. I assume in a month or so we'll have the first 11.4/12.0 RC1. I think it needs to be decided by then for sure.
Huh? 11.4 is 8 months away pretty much exactly - meaning the 12.0 discussion is 5 months away - pretty much exactly. The RC1 is _two_ months after _that_, no idea where you get your data from.
Greetings, Stephan
For clarity, your proposing the release major / minor discussion take place 11 months prior to the actual release. right? (Clearly that's not how I read your proposal).
I said: 3 months before 11.X release we discuss to rename 11.X - it was you who added the +1 somewhere.
So you are saying: == For the next 5 months we call the next release 11.4 and have release 11.4 M1, etc. Then in Dec. 2010 have a 11.4 v 12.0 discussion on the factory list about the actual release version number. And if based on that discussion the board decides to bump the major number, I guess we jump to 12.0 RC1, RC2 after the milestone series. == I just had a very hard time conceptually believing you proposed bumping the release numbers after the milestone series had started. (of course, if and only if warranted.) Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org