Re: The next Gnome Office release.

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 09:15:10AM +0000, Charles Goodwin wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 23:13 -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> > A change from 1.2 to 1.4 for applications such as gnumeric is anything
> > but `minor'. The change from gnumeric 1.2 to 1.4 will move gnumeric from
> > Gnome 2.4 to Gnome 2.6 and add a whole bunch of other changes.
> > 
> > It is essential that the Gnome Office version numbering allows us to
> > figure out which underlying versions of the individual applications is
> > included. If Gnome Office 2.0.0 initially included gnumeric 1.4.1 and
> > later gnumeric 1.4.2 just because no other component had a release, bug
> > tracking becomes very difficult: If one is successful with branding
> > `Gnome Office' the bug reports will refer to the Gnome Office version
> > but we need the component version to address bugs.
> 
> Which is precisely why I'm advocating that GO 2.0.0 might contain
> Gnumeric 1.4.1, but it'd then have to be at least GO 2.0.1 that could
> contain Gnumeric 1.4.2.

The notion of bumping micro versions everytime a GO app bumps seems
reasonable.  We're aiming to coordinate major/minor bumps so they
are not an issue.

The only change I'd make to charles' suggestion would be to call the
next release GO 1.2.  Save GO 2.0 for when libgoffice is integrated
in all apps.