On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 05:38:35PM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Andreas Jaeger wrote:
On Tuesday 06 July 2010 16:24:50 Per Jessen wrote:
[...] The main issue I see in the current version numbering scheme is that we are not adhering to it. IF we're saying that it is impossible to adhere to, that would a good reason for a more appropriate scheme.
Per, what do you mean with adhering to the current version numbering scheme? What is your expectation on it?
Andreas
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. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org