"Chad" <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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Good afternoon,
This morning I bumped the revision number to 2.0[0]. Some
people on IRC didn't like this, so I reverted it and I'm bringing
it here. I don't think anyone really wants to keep doing 1.x
releases (people seriously get confused that 1.10 comes after
1.6). The following suggestions have been put forward:
- Drop the 1 from 1.17.x and make the releases start counting
from 17.x, 18.x, etc.
- Bump 1.x to 2.0 and move forward from there.
- Drop numbers entirely, and pick silly names
Thoughts?
-Chad
[0]
http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/66923
I really fail to see any advantage to throwing away the major.minor version
schema. If people are misinterpreting 1.15 as being less than 1.6, and are
determined to continue to believe that despite all our best efforts to the
contrary, then joggling the numbers around a little is really not going to
improve their experience of MediaWiki; getting the wrong version is really
the least of their worries.
I do agree that dropping 1.6, or at least restoring the "this is the ancient
version, don't use it unless you really have to" messages that I definitely
remember but which seem to have vanished, might be beneficial overall; but I
really don't see any point in changing schemas for the sake of it.
I'm very much up for a MW 2.0 where we take the opportunity to clear out
some of the many nasty idiosyncracies that we've accumulated over the past
seven years; but I see no problem with continuing 1.xx indefinitely until
that time, and no point in 'invoking' a major version change for a release
which is not really any different to other recent releases. If we're going
to bite the bullet and *make* 1.17 worthy of a new major version, then fair
enough. But I haven't seen that happen yet.
--HM