Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (465 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marcus Meissner wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 05:38:35PM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
> > Hi Andreas,
> > I have always understood the openSUSE versioning scheme to be a
> > major.minor scheme:
> >
> > A change in major number means significant changes to the base
> > system. syslog, sysinit, cron, mail, kde, X, zypper, yast, etc - the
> > key
> > components without which we would have no system.  A simple upgrade
> > of those components should not cause a major number change, but like
> > I just wrote, perhaps if we changed syslog to rsyslog, sysinit to
> > upstart cron to anacron, yast2 to yast3 and kde3 to kde4, we would
> > have a number of significant changes that together would cause a
> > major number change.
> >
> > The minor number changes on every release.
> >
> > We all know that openSUSE has not exactly been working towards such a
> > meaning, i.e. we have not been adhering to the versioning scheme.
>
> Well, we do disruptive changes in every release. (Not always in the
> same area). It is kinda hard to point out a .0 release before hand.

Hmm, I beg to differ - all it requires is planning.  Many software
companies manage to do that (more or less well). 

Just for the record - I'm not advocating that we have to keep the
major.minor scheme.  All I'm saying is - 

if we keep it, let's make sure it has some meaning. 
if we choose a new one, let's first define what its purpose is. 
(i.e. if it's just to tell the next from the previous release, a
sequential number is sufficient).


-- 
Per Jessen, Zürich (24.6°C)

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