Re: GNOME 3.0 in March 2011

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Claudio Saavedra <csaavedra gnome org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 12:55 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
>>
>>    - just release a new 2.30.x release with additional fixes: this is
>>      perfectly fine, especially if the development in master is
>>      explicitly targerted at GNOME 3. A good example here is gedit.
>
> This can be problematic if a module has already released a 2.31.x
> tarball. Releasing 2.30.x now means going back in the version number and
> this can be problematic for distributors.
>

What I would recommend in that case is to create a 2.32 branch off
2.30, and move master to 2.90. But I would not worry too much about
distributors, we can generally handle version discontinuities (even if
it is not nice and requires epochs and such).

Matthias