Re: Subversion 0.14.4 released

On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 11:26:24PM +0200, Nuutti Kotivuori wrote:
>...
> - and that's really a big if - if such a level is needed, I think it
> would be best to reinstate the good old milestone system. Issues could
> be associated with a particular milestone - just like is done with
> revisions now - and when releasing versions, it could just be said
> which milestones were achieved and which were left to later
> version. Very straightforward and easy - and the amount of confusion
> caused by this should be very little.
>
> But - the current system is fine - just food for though if something
> is needed in the future.

The old milestone system was dropped for a couple reasons:

1) we needed a "standard" version numbering system
2) the numbers we chose were equal to the milestone: M6 was 0.6.0, M7 was
   0.7.0, etc. Thus, the milestone was redundant

It is interesting to note that we had a 0.10.1 and 0.10.2.

The current problem is that we "locked into" 0.14.x being the alpha releases
and 0.15.x being the beta releases. That was the core mistake. We conflated
release state with the version number.

Now, they've been unlinked, and I think everything will be happy again...

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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