Re: 22.0 Release Status: Important news
>>>> "S" == Steve Youngs
<youngs(a)xemacs.org> writes:
S> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:
> When should we open the 21.5 development branch? (My proposal is
to
> rename it to 22.1 when we're sure that the current release will be
> 22.0.) I have that tentatively scheduled for next week. Is that too
> soon?
S> Just curious, but if what we have currently is...
S> 21.1.x - stable branch
S> 21.2.x - development branch
S> Shouldn't the next major release be...
S> 22.1.x - stable branch
S> 22.2.x - development branch
Actually, assuming it's worth an increase in the major number,
22.0.x - stable branch
22.1.x - unstable branch
S> Or even...
S> 21.3.x - stable branch
S> 21.4.x - development branch
S> I just think that it will cause confusion if we change the stable
S> minor releases from odd to even and the development minor releases
S> from even to odd.
If projects have an even/odd numbering for stable/unstable, then folks
expect the `odd' numbers to be unstable. Like the Linux kernel.
It's our current convention that is confusing. I think switching to
the other will cause even more confusion short term, but perhaps be
better long term. I don't feel strongly about this.