release number? (was: Christmas release? :))

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Monday 26 November 2007 12:24, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> I think we should prepare for a christmas tree release of Thuban.

I am thinking about how to call this release, what is your opinion.
Candidates I have come up with:

1.2.1
1.2.1beta1
1.3.0
1.3.0beta1

There are arguments for all candidates:
1.2.1 would be suitable, because I think we have fixed a couple of problems
since 1.2.0, so everybody should better try 1.2.1. Also it seems currently we 
do not have that many users so might not need to care for too many branches
and want to encourage them to test things.

1.2.1beta1 would be suitable because we know there are some problems with the 
current state of Thuban. Notably with the encoding issues. Also we do have a 
completely new pyshapelib implementation which has not seen that much testing 
with Thuban, yet and could use some.

1.3.0 would be a way out and revive the "experimental" branch being an odd 
number. What speaks against it is that there are not that many changes in 
Thuban, so we might do inflation here and also there is no point in using 
1.2.0 anymoree with 1.3.0 out there.

We could consider 1.3.0beta1 if we do the complete overhaul to internal 
unicode yet.

I am mainly undecided between 1.2.1beta1 and 1.2.1.
With Free Software it is a good tradition to indicate the state of the 
software and Thuban is "beta" right now, with somethings moving fast and 
others not deeply tested. On the other hand, if someone would use 1.2.0 
instead of 1.2.1beta1 because of the believe it would be more stable, it 
would be bad as well.

Opinions?

Bernhard
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