Hi Jörg,
Check:
Version Number Assignment (Apache OpenOffice internal)
Structure
<major>.<minor>.<micro>
Explanation
<major>: huge release with visible changes and new features including
incompatible API changes if necessary. Translation updates are most
often necessary to address the UI visible changes.
<minor>: smaller improvements of features that don't need any
translation. And of course any kind of bug fixes.
<micro>: only selected bug fixes and most often only critical ones. This
includes any potential security issues.
From: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Releases
That is the current policy. So well as long as compatible we could
Change the API with a minor Release. It seems I got the detail wrong.
All the best
Peter
On 19.10.21 15:30, Jörg Schmidt wrote:
Hello Carl,
-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Marcum [mailto:cmar...@apache.org]
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 1:13 PM
To:dev@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: API doc on web site [Was: Accessing the comment
object (annotation) in Draw/Impress via API]
Actually we do provide updated documentation included in
the SDK with
each convenience binary release.
It can be found on Linux at
/opt/openoffice4/sdk/docs/common/ref/module-ix.html
if the SDK is installed.
Knowing that we can't make API changes like adding or deprecating
methods or things like that in a minor version change,
Is this a principle that _all_ those involved in releases
will also _reliably_ follow?
It's up to us to inform new contributors who may make such a
mistake if
it were to happen.
yes, but ...
As far as I know, only the PMC has the right to decide about the release of a
release - so will the PMC reliably support the mentioned principle (='API
changes not in a minor release')?
I would appreciate a clear "yes" or "no" on this.
And please allow me to say that the current formal minor release of AOO is
"4.1", so, respecting the implied principle, a change to the API is thus not
allowed until version 5.0.0.
greetings,
Jörg
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