Re: New versioning scheme

On 05/12/2016 07:53 AM, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> Magnus Hagander reminded us:
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>> And we already have a version numbering scheme that confuses people :)
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> Exactly. I think it is time for us to realize that our beloved "major.minor"

Isn't it major.major.minor?

> versioning is a failure, both at a marketing and a technical level. It's a
> lofty idea, but causes way more harm than good in real life. People on
> pgsql-hackers know that 9.1 and 9.5 are wildly different beasts. Clients?
> They are running "Postgres 9". So I'm all in favor of doing away with
> major and minor.

Seems to work here without confusion:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/internals/release-process/

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> However, this may break some things that expect a triple number, so one
> solution is to market it as Postgres 10, Postgres 11, etc. but keep the
> minor number - which shall never be changed. Thus, our next releases
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> 10.0.0
> 11.0.0
> 12.0.0
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> And the revisions stay the same:

And the never incrementing 0 is explained as?

I am not saying it is a bad idea just one that need explanation also,
which is true of all versioning schemes. The issue seems to be getting
the explanation out there, not the scheme.

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> 10.0.1
> 10.0.2
> 10.0.3
> 11.0.1
> 12.0.1
> 12.0.2
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> etc.
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> Greg Sabino Mullane greg(at)turnstep(dot)com
> End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com/
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