[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] Versioning scheme

[PÁSZTOR György]

Hi!

"Rich Felker" <dalias at aerifal.cx> írta 2005-09-16 23:45-kor:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 10:59:27PM +0200, Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> > I propose the following: year.quarter. E.g. MPlayer 5.4 for 2005 fourth
> > quarter release. Look, we can reach 6.4 in a year!
> > 
> > At least this is consistent, but gives us a bit of freedom aswell: we
> > can decide in which of the 3 months of a quarter to release. These
> > should be like a bit more stable releases than the current pre ones.
> > They could utilize 1-2 rc releases before the final ones.
> Totally against. All this amounts to is version number inflation, and
> in fact it makes the version numbers meaningless. They have no
> correspondence to how complete the program is or how much has changed;
> they just represent time. If we're going to go down the stupid
> microsoft path and version our software by year, we might as well just
> use cvs snapshot dates as release versions. Then we can have version
I don't agree with you. It doesn't remember me to the m$ way, instead of
what ubuntu does. And that works! Their plan is that they make a release
twice a year. You can calculate with it. It seems rational for me from the
point of a user, and maybe it could be an enforcement for the developers to
work :-)
You (developers) can make roadmap's for future releases. You can write into
the changlog, what did you. (And into the TODO, what not :-) )
At least the TODO file wouldn't a valueless sh^H^Htext document as now...

The most advanced users get another enforcement, hope, anything to try out
the rc releases, like the users of test repo of the debian or ubuntu
distros. -> You get fast and valuable feedbacks and the "release" can be
really good!

Cheers,
PASZTOR Gyorgy
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