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From: yackd@montana.et.byu.edu (Don Yacktman)
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To: kane@sonata.cc.purdue.edu, yackd@alaska.et.byu.edu
Subject: Re: version numbering (Re: release of MiscKit 1.0 miscellanea)
Status: RO
> The major.minor.maintenance form is quite common. My opinion?
> Use this form, with bug fixes getting maintenance increment,
> minor version getting incremented on new object additions with
> maintenance reset to 1. [...] the major number should
> stay at 1 until such a time as it should be incremented to 2; I
> think you (or the group) will know when it is time for that.
I like this the best. (The other suggestions are interesting,
but for some inexplicable reason, this one appeals to me most.
Who could ever say why?)
Well, hopefully I'll get something useful done on this during the
week. With everything else, though, it's tough. :-)
As to release frequency, I was thinking that 2 weeks would be the
shortest time ever between releases, but longer is fine by me, too.
Depends mostly on how much is submitted, and the seriousness of
the bugs that are fixed. (Not that a quicker release would be
out of the question for _really_ major problems, but I'd prefer
to average a month or so between releases, and maybe a hair
longer for releases to the archive sites, depending on the content
of the releases.) This may all sound sort of wishy-washy, but I'd
prefer to play it by ear at first, and see what sort of pattern
develops. And I'd definitely rather not have too many releases
since people don't want to be doing re-installs every other week,
in most normal circumstances! :-)
Oh, I think I'll also leave a HISTORY file in the open on ftp.byu.edu
with older versions so that people can grab different revisions to
suit their needs. I'll probably include the history file in the
release itself, as well. Seems like a good idea.
Later,
-don