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

[Didrik Pinte]

On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 17:24 +0100, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> 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?
> 

I vote for the 1.2.1 :
 - It's moving fast ;-) with the new 1.2.1. Thus people will not stay
with the 1.2.0 and test the new version. 
 - Let's force them to report bugs if they are some ! That's why i'm not
for the beta1 version. I'm sure you are right saying that some of them
could be afraid of the beta version.

Didrik
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