[Gpe-list] [RFC] Coupling GPE release cycle with gnome release cycle

[Koen Kooi]

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Paul Sokolovsky schreef:
> Hello Koen,
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> Thursday, January 11, 2007, 3:39:45 PM, you wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> What do you think of making gpe releases at the same time gnome does a release? And more
>> importantly, use the same versions as gnome does. I'm not proposing to use the same rigid
>> freeze cycle and deadlines like gnome has, but to release a gpe version (2.16, 2.18) each
>> 6 months, so distribution know when to package, and more importantly, what to package.
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>> Related to that, I propose to bring some unification into the package versions. Right now
>> you have to have followed gpe development pretty closely to know where API changes
>> happened, and what packages are affected. My proposal is to bump the core libs and
>> applications (gpe-pim, gpe-conf) to 2.17.x in svn and start doing snapshot releases like
>> gnome does.
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>   Well, this means it will follow OPIE's versioning scheme,

Hell no! Opie bumps version even if *nothing* has changed. I'm *not* proposing that!
However, it could happen that a small bugfix would bump the version from 2.16.x to 2.18.x
due to a year of inactivity.

regards,

Koen
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