[GRASS5] Roadmap: Numbering

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:40:29PM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:56:15PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
> > Markus Neteler wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 04:20:30PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:

> > >>Grass is in a similar position. I would suggest, to keep people from
> > >>wondering about seemingly random version numbers, to:
> > >>
> > >>- -keep 5.0.x branch in bugfix mode

That is what we plan to do.
But we need people maintaining it.
Otherwise focus will shift on things active developers are
interested it. :)

> > >>- -development of current grass50 cvs becomes 5.1, if pre-release
> > >>snapshots are to be made, eventually becoming 5.2.x
> > >
> > > To me this looks more confusing:
> > 
> > To whom? Grass developers? How many grass users have seen 5.1 who would
> > be confused by this?

I completely agree with Markus here
there has been a lot talk about 5.1 and its feature set.
Also there are many people not following GRASS development intensively.
If we release something that is called 5.1.x which does not have
the features as expected, this is a problem.

> > > replacing an existing 5.1 with
> > > another 5.1 is not easy to understand. That's why I suggested to
> > > skip number 5.1 (say, rename the current 5.1 to 5.7) and also
> > > skip number 5.2 (as an unstable version following the non-existing
> > > 5.1 is 5.3 which then leads to 5.4).

It is easer to explain why that numbering scheme changed.


> > But you have to decide who it's more important not to confuse, and who
> > you are more likely to confuse ...
> 
> Very true. However, it seems that most developers are not too interested
> in this version numbering - so I don't know.

I'll think most people will just go with your judgement.
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