[Dev] Milestone numbering going forward

[Ted Leung]

+1

On Dec 1, 2005, at 10:08 AM, Grant Baillie wrote:

> (Trimming CC:s)
>
> I concur vociferously with PJE & Katie.
>
> +1 to calling the trunk 0.7M, 0.7dev,  0.7alpha, or 0.7a. (In order  
> of preference; while "alpha" has a cool retro 50's sci-fi ring to  
> it, for the most part I tend to associate it with "buggy and slow").
>
> FWIW, that's how the projects I've worked on in the past have  
> labelled releases. E.g. "trunk" OS builds at Apple call themselves  
> 10.5 (+ an internal build identifier), and 10.4.x software updates  
> and security patches are done off a branch from 10.4. (Cynics might  
> observe that the thing Apple will call "10.5" would more accurately  
> be labelled something like "10.5dev.250" or "10.5b1" :).
>
> --Grant
>
> On Dec 1, 2005, at 7:58 , Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>
>> It sounds to me from this discussion that it's not a question of  
>> forward *or* backward, but forward *and* backward numbering.  If  
>> we release a new version of an old branch, that's a postrelease  
>> tag on the old version number.  If we release an in-development  
>> milestone of a future version, that's a prerelease tag.  Whether  
>> these are done from the trunk or a branch makes relatively little  
>> difference, as does whether we use 0.7dev.m1 or 0.7a1 to designate  
>> a prerelease milestone of 0.7.
>>
>> I personally find the scheme we've been using to be odd, because  
>> it doesn't reflect our *goals*.  In my view, we've been working on  
>> early (i.e. pre-release) versions of 0.6, and now we'll be working  
>> on pre-releases of 0.7 until we're ready to release 0.7.   I don't  
>> actually know what is meant in this discussion by "forward" or  
>> "backward" versioning, because those terms don't make sense to me  
>> either.  The numbers don't go forward or backward, we are simply  
>> issuing either pre-releases or post-releases.  What we *have* been  
>> doing is giving post-release version numbers for our pre-release  
>> versions.  We should simply be clear about the difference between  
>> the two.
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