| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Mark Dilger <hornschnorter(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: 10.0 |
| Date: | 2016-05-14 14:23:41 |
| Message-ID: | 573734ED.7020004@commandprompt.com |
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On 05/14/2016 07:08 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 8:00 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> Any project that starts inflating its numbering scheme sends a message to
>>> users of the form, "hey, we've just been taken over by marketing people, and
>>> software quality will go down from now on."
>>
>> I don't think this is about version number inflation, but actually more
>> the opposite. What you're calling the major number is really a marketing
>> number. There is not a technical distinction between major releases where
>> we choose to bump the first number and those where we choose to bump the
>> second. It's all about marketing. So to me, merging those numbers would
>> be an anti-marketing move. I think it's a good move: it would be more
>> honest and transparent about what the numbers mean, not less so.
>
> "Marketing" and "honesty" are not antonyms, and thinking that
> marketing is unimportant for the success of the project is not
> correct.
+1
JD
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