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Re: Next release from master


From: Daniel Colascione
Subject: Re: Next release from master
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 13:45:45 -0800
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On 01/18/2016 01:43 PM, John Wiegley wrote:
>>>>>> Daniel Colascione <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> I'd be happy with switching to a less-like release scheme and
>> incrementing a single number. Do minor releases even make sense anymore?
> 
> I think so. If we only increment major numbers, there is no sense of when big
> things happen, and or how much one should expect APIs to change between
> releases.

We try to keep APIs backward-compatible anyway though. In a
single-number, time-based release system, we'd just announce that we're
deprecating some API, and some time later, actually do it.

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