Re: GNOMEVER2.3?

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 14:47, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 19:27, Luis Villa wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 14:24, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > > Le 18 Nov 2002 14:00:34 -0500, Luis Villa a ecrit :
> > > 
> > > > I was going through the list of versioned-but-not-bugsquaded bugs[1]
> > > > and realized there are a lot of enhancements marked 2.0, which clearly
> > > > is not correct ;) and 2.1 isn't _really_ correct either at this point.
> > > > I know someone requested a 2.3 TARGET a while back, and I (stupidly)
> > > > more or less ignored it. Consider this an apology :) Should I add it
> > > > now? anyone object?
> > > > Luis
> > > 
> > > No objection here. It will definitely be useful. Will it be TARGET2.3.0
> > > or TARGET2.3.x or TARGET2.4.0 ? I vote for TARGET2.4.0 :)
> > 
> > I was thinking features (which is mostly what I'm looking at today)
> > should be TARGET2.3.0; bugs should be TARGET2.4.0- thoughts?
> 
> TARGET2.3.0 and TARGET2.4.0 both make sense, but only for important bugs
> that need to be fixed by a release. For enhancements etc., I would have
> expected "GNOMEVER2.3" to be the most sensible keyword. But we need to
> define these precisely.
> 
> GNOMEVER2.1 - bug exists in GNOME2.1, and can be fixed in GNOME2.1.
> GNOMEVER2.2 - doesn't exist, shouldn't exist and has no useful meaning
> to any bugs in bugzilla at the moment. (Since enhancements cannot be
> addressed in a stable series, they shouldn't get this keyword.)
> GNOMEVER2.3 - bug exists in GNOME2.3 (so all enhancements that haven't
> been addressed yet will definitely be still open in 2.3 and can get this
> keyword) and can be fixed in GNOME2.3.
> 
> And TARGETs are the usual bugsquad recommendations to be fixed by a
> release, but I can't see why we would need to target anything this
> early. It's not the job of the bugsquad AFAIK to target enhancements
> anyway.
> 
> What do you think?

Note that the subject of the original email was in fact GNOMEVER; I had
a thinko when I think talked about TARGET instead of GNOMEVER. :/ So,
yeah, basically I agree with everything Andrew says here :) 

Luis