Re: 9.6 -> 10.0

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I read every email in this thread. Thanks everyone who contributed.
>
> However, my point still did not change. The upcoming features in 9.6 is no
> less
> than 9.0 or 8.0 -- even more. Apart from the feature list, the
> infrastructural
> changes in 9.6 is a bit too much, so we should warn the users about that,
> with
> a .0 release. I, as a person from the field, will raise warnings to my
> customers about that, for example.
>
> An argument about "we can have 10.0 release if we have this feature" is
> also
> *very* conservative: No one is stopping us for 11.0 release, when we have
> those
> cool features with those major breakages.
>
> Eventually, before releasing 9.6beta1, to make the packagers lives easier,
> I
> want to push for a change again. Let's stop being conservative, and mark
> this
> release as 10.0.
>

​I'll throw my +1 behind a 10.0 release - and avoiding the discussion in
the future by forbidding x.6 releases from here on out I'm not sure where
I'd fall if someone wanted to go from 10.2 to 11.0 but we can cross that
bridge should we ever come to it.

David J.
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