Re: [ubl-ndrsc] Versioning Notes

[Eduardo Gutentag <eduardo.gutentag@sun.com>]

I don't know. It works really well for Docbook; it makes everybody's
life simpler and easier. And while I agree that there is a (perceived)
need for as fast as possible way to introduce changes, I'm not sure
that the need is for incompatible changes. I still think that 
incompatible changes should be introduced rather slowly.


On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 19:51, Eve L. Maler wrote:
> It makes for a very long upgrade cycle, and these days I'd be more 
> inclined to just say that it must be announced only at least one *minor* 
> revision prior to the major revision's release.  The world just moves 
> faster now, and the advent of XML and -- especially -- XSLT has 
> increased people's tolerance for simple syntactic upgrades.  (For 
> DocBook's original time, it made a ton of sense.)
> 
> 	Eve
> 
> Jon Bosak wrote:
> > | Bill, note this: In Closing Plenary we discussed (Jon brought up)
> > | that when making a Major change, that will affect backward
> > | compatibility, that instead of making it in the next Major
> > | release, you announce the change will be made in the next Major
> > | release.  So this means you actually go through 2 Major releases,
> > | the second being where the change actually takes place.
> > 
> > I was describing the policy adopted by Davenport for DocBook (as
> > well as I could remember it).  The policy was that if you are at
> > version (N-1).M and you want to make a backwards-incompatible
> > change then you don't get to make that change in N.0 but just get
> > to announce in release N.0 that the feature will be changed in
> > version (N+1).0.
> > 
> > I wasn't urging this, just noting it as something to consider.
> > Somewhere along the line we might want to ask the opinions of the
> > co-maintainers of that specification back then:  Eve Maler and
> > Eduardo Gutentag.
> > 
> > Jon
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