On 5/26/2010 3:00 PM, 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.
This seems kinda odd. Then we have the issue of people wondering why we
go 1.16.0 -> 17.0. (Where did the other number go? What happened to
versions 2-16?)
- Bump 1.x to 2.0 and move forward from there.
I think we should go to 2.0 eventually, but it should wait until we add
some major new feature(s) and/or make some big breaking change that will
require changes to lots of extensions or for people to do something more
than just run update.php to upgrade.
- Drop numbers entirely, and pick silly names
Ew, no. Besides the confusion issue others have noted, it also creates
issues with things like bot frameworks or anything else automated that
may need to check the version of a wiki. Rather than simply checking
against less than/equal/greater than a number, they have to maintain a
mapping of name->number.
Thoughts?
I would support dropping the 1.6 branch from the download listings and
dropping support for it (if we haven't already; the last release was
more than a year ago). PHP apparently stopped releasing security updates
for PHP4 nearly 2 years ago.[1] Are there any statistics for the
download server so that we could see how many people are actually
downloading 1.6?
[1]
http://www.php.net/archive/2007.php#2007-07-13-1
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