Den 16. april 2012 22:43, skrev James Gifford:
So in short, what you're saying in this entire thing is:
Guys, lets just follow http://semver.org/
Right? Or am I missing something important?
It's similar, but not the same. That document refers to software. I'm
talking about specifications. But Unity is a set of different things,
right? So even if NotifyOSD and the LauncherAPI both follow the idea
you're describing, that still won't make Unity as a whole more
comprehensible. Indeed, quite the contrary. A version increment for one
part makes perfect sense, but not for another. So, it's been split up.
There's no whole. No Unity.
It would be better to say that I'm advocating a «Holistic approach to
documentation». I think this is probably the most important thing we can
do in Ubuntu now, and we should do it right now, as part of the New
Ubuntu. In the old days, learning how to develop on GNU/Linux was very
difficult. Not because the tools themselves were difficult, but because
there were so many of them, in different versions and with lots of
outdated documentation, or documentation that wasn't obviously relevant.
That was the Old Ubuntu. In the New Ubuntu, documentation is easy to
find. There are paths to follow when you want to learn something. All
documentation is obviously either relevant or irrelevant. You should
never ever feel that learning something new is a gamble.
Unity should lead by example.
Jo-Erlend Schinstad
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