On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 02:19:11PM +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > On 3 September 2016 at 10:27, Sébastien Wilmet <swil...@gnome.org> wrote: > > > The versioning looks much better. Small detail, during the next > > development cycle, the alpha/beta/rc versions will be 3.89.x, with the > > 3.90.0 version released in March 2017, right? > > Starting at ".90" has a good round number feeling to it, and it makes > it easier to spot the pattern — but we're still debating which minor > version number will be assigned to the first development release of > the cycle. We are reluctant to drop the invariant that the odd release > numbers signal instability, so the first release in a development > cycle would be .91, and the first "island of stability" following it 6 > months later would be .92, followed by the development cycle starting > with .93, etc.: > > [ Development starts here ] > .91.0 → .91.n — development, dropping deprecated API > .92.0 → .92.n — partially stable > .93.0 → .93.n — development, with no strict blanket backward > compatibility guarantee
Starting at .91/.92 permits a maximum of 2.5 years to reach 4.0, if the numbers are kept in the 90's (otherwise it gets ugly with 3.100, 3.102, etc). Starting at .89/.90 would allow 3 years (2-3 years is what the announcement says). -- Sébastien _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
