[Dev] Milestone numbering going forward

[Ted Leung]

I think that Alec is right here on alphaness.

As far as the rest of the numbering, i think it's the inclusion of  
the milestone number in the version number that is the source of the  
problems.  Most apache projects don't do this.  There are nightly  
builds, which are versioned by date, and then alphas, beta, RC's and  
finals.

The only projects that I am aware of that use milestones are Eclipse  
and Mozilla.  The Eclipse folks use a number scheme similar to the  
one being proposed (see <http://eclipse.org/downloads/>).  They also  
use a datestamped nightly build.   I wasn't able to find any  
milestone builds off of Mozilla.org at all, but I did find the  
nightlies <http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/>.

Ted

On Nov 29, 2005, at 2:04 PM, Alec Flett wrote:

> Heikki Toivonen wrote:
>> If we start talking about alphas and betas now, some people could get
>> the impression that Chandler 1.0 is almost out of the door, which is
>> obviously not the case. We'd rather avoid that.
>>
>>
> I completely disagree here, at least in terms of alpha. It is  
> standard practice to have <version>alpha to indicate that <version>  
> is not out yet. I think if we talk about 0.7 alpha 1, people are  
> not going to think that 1.0 is near.
>
> I feel like we're really bucking all the common trends in  
> versioning, both open source and closed - why not look at some  
> existing projects and look at what they do? If people are  
> complaining that our versioning is confusing, then inventing a new  
> mechanism is not going to help the situation.
>
> Alec
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