Sooo quiet...

[David Elliott]

On 2002.01.28 16:50 Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Eric Pouech wrote:
> 
> > IMO, what's important behind version numbers isn't the version in
> > itself,
> > but rather:
> > 1] the goal you want to reach
> > 2] the milestones between where you stand and 1]
> 
> Indeed. But you see, for an outsider, these are all "just details". For
> most people, version numbers provide a sort of progress bar.  (It's true,
> the info provided by a progress bar is mostly useless, but most people
> will want that instead of no feedback). It is up to Alexandre to figure
> out this progress bar, on whatever terms. A version number like 0.98.4
> does provide a lot more "warm & fuzzy" (and a little bit more
> information), than a 020402 version which provides _no_ information
> whatsoever. In fact, just by looking at such version you can't figure:
>   -- if the project made any progress at all
>   -- how much progress was made (if we assume some did occur)
>   -- the psychological gage of the maintainer on how close we are to some
> meaningful goal.
> 

There is this wonderful thing called the ChangeLog.  There is also the 
ability to view the wine-cvs mailing list archives and see what has been 
fixed.

I think that Wine still has a bit to go before we can even consider 
pre-1.0 releases.  As eric said in order to do 0.99.x type releases you 
need goals/milestones.

I think that we should get all the technical stuff done (i.e. stabilize 
server protocol, overhaul USER) before 0.99.0.

When the major things have been done then I think we could safely consider 
wine to be beta software instead of alpha software, at which point I think 
an 0.99.0 branch of the CVS tree should be made and we should work towards 
1.0 from there.  The other option is to just leave it in the trunk of 
CVS-- which for our purposes may be just as well if not better since we'd 
probably want to concentrate development work on 1.0.

Moving to a 0.99.x version scheme while wine is still alpha is /not/ a 
good idea.

-Dave