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Re: 0.35 => Beta => 1.0 schedule

From: Greg Hudson <ghudson_at_MIT.EDU>
Date: 2003-12-05 00:58:05 CET

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 18:41, Brian W. Fitzpatrick wrote:
> OK, so how about if we stick to the even/odd convention, plus we
> include either the string 'dev' or 'unstable' in development
> releases?

Well, it's not totally anathema to me, but it strikes me as ugly and I
don't see what it buys us.

I reiterate that we should consider limiting ourselves to making
version-numbered releases on stable branches only, and not making
"development" releases. If you look at the larger body of free software
projects out there, most of them do not make a frequent practice of
making development releases after they reach 1.0. The big example of a
project which does so is the Linux kernel, which historically hasn't had
a publically accessible repository to pull from. (And it has much less
frequent development releases now that it does have such a repository.)

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