Re: communication/information between forward-looking projects [was Re: Some info (Ref: GSOC 2008 advice)]

[Dave Neary <bolsh gnome org>]

Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 16:14 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
>> The first step in releasing GNOME 3.0 is to dissociate the in-built
>> assumption "will break everything" from the version jump.
> 
> Sure, we can go from GNOME 2.22 this cycle straight to GNOME 24 the next
> one.  What does *that* buy us?  That is, there needs to be reason for
> breaking the current practice, not the other way.

Quoting myself:
"Many users think "major version bump" is synonymous with "significant
new features"."

If you agree with that (you're free not to), then it's not a huge leap
to negate that statement:
"Many users think "minor version bump" is synonymous with "no
significant new features"."

And that gives you a good reason to periodically increment the major
version number.

Cheers,
Dave.

-- 
Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
bolsh gnome org