Let's use 3.0 only for next real release (was: Re: After 2.9.7)

Boudewijn Rempt boud at valdyas.org
Thu Aug 27 13:27:17 BST 2015


On Thu, 27 Aug 2015, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Am Donnerstag, 27. August 2015, 09:57:32 schrieb Boudewijn Rempt:
>> I think that the frameworks branch is now ready to be called 3.0. It's
>> obviously not ready to release to end users, but we should make it the
>> new master. But let's call it the frameworks branch for now.
>
> +1 for making frameworks master now :)
>
> Proposal:
> Let's change and not (ab)use the "3.0" version label for the current 
> development milestone in the frameworks branch where initial port could be 
> declared done-with-no-big-regressions, and thus also not do the first release 
> as "3.1".
> Let's instead use the "3.0" version for the first release. And simply keep the 
> current 3.0 Alpha tag on the frameworks branch.
>
> Not need to dump "3.0" in interface to public and waste time/space in the 
> release notes, chats and interviews/articles on where 3.0 is and why 3.0 was 
> skipped, where instead features could and should be highlighted :)
> Unless anyone can tell if there could be a great promotion spin done out of 
> that? ;)
>
> Internally we have been talking about 3.0 as switch-feature-development-to-
> frameworks milestone and 3.1 as first-qt5-based release, but well, we are 
> smart contributors and can quickly adapt tag labels, right? :)
>
> Objections?

Not for me, but though I was just using the terminology we'd decided on at the 
start of the porting, I don't switching away from it :-)

Boudewijn



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