Re: point release versioning

2000-08-02 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Philip Charles wrote: > Let's make it explicit and call it 2.2r0. The "r" should prevent > confusion with kernels. We know what we mean, but other people could be > confused. I agree with that. AFAIK the CD's volume ID (& .disk/info & README) is the only place this occurs a

Correction to release notes

2000-08-02 Thread Yann Dirson
Hi, relese notes for potato mention that "The `console-tools-data' package was +merged back into console-tools.". This is not right. console-tools-data' was renamed to `console-data'. Also, whereas kbd was the default package for console handling in 2.1, console-data took its place and kbd is s

Correction to release notes

2000-08-02 Thread Yann Dirson
Hi, relese notes for potato mention that "The `console-tools-data' package was +merged back into console-tools.". This is not right. console-tools-data' was renamed to `console-data'. Also, whereas kbd was the default package for console handling in 2.1, console-data took its place and kbd is s

Re: point release versioning [was Re: dedication]

2000-08-02 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > Just couldn't help but add my $0.02! For the M$ server products (NT and > 2000), the initial release is always Service Pack 1. That is not true. A service pack is a collection of hotfixes and other (sometimes major) changes. For example the first servi

Re: point release versioning [was Re: dedication]

2000-08-02 Thread Jens Müller
- Original Message - From: "Philip Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Martin Schulze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Ben Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Philip Hands" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; ; Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 1:45 PM Subject: Re: point release versioning [was Re: dedication] > Let

Re: point release versioning [was Re: dedication]

2000-08-02 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Hey! Just couldn't help but add my $0.02! For the M$ server products (NT and 2000), the initial release is always Service Pack 1. It seems odd to me (not really, I just consider the source) that the initial release of a software package has a service pack already. I would therefore state

Re: point release versioning [was Re: dedication]

2000-08-02 Thread Philip Charles
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Martin Schulze wrote: > Philip Charles wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > > > > > > > IIRC, the second release of 2.1 was called 2.1r2 to avoid the confusion > > > > I > > > > am in the process of creating. We may mean the "r" to mean "revision", > >

Re: point release versioning [was Re: dedication]

2000-08-02 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 04:40:30AM +, Philip Charles wrote: > Agree about it being confusing. If we want to keep "r" meaning > "revision", what about calling this one 2.2r0? This way we could simply call it 2.2.0 (not so bad idea anyway, but may be confused with kernel versions).

Re: point release versioning [was Re: dedication]

2000-08-02 Thread Martin Schulze
Philip Charles wrote: > On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > > > > IIRC, the second release of 2.1 was called 2.1r2 to avoid the confusion I > > > am in the process of creating. We may mean the "r" to mean "revision", > > > but many people would interpret it as "release" and so would