On 27/05/10 05:00, Chad wrote:
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
I think we should continue to do 1.x releases, until such time as we make a large enough change to justify incrementing the major version number.
I think we could have gone from 1.9 to 2.0, but that opportunity passed 3 years ago. As Aryeh says, the problem of people getting confused about 1.6 vs 1.10 will diminish with time.
I've stopped backporting security fixes to 1.6. As far as I'm concerned, it's not supported anymore.
-- Tim Starling