0.8 and beyond

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On 20.11.2013 11:59, David Edmundson wrote:
>>
>> The general direction (at least those parts of it I understand ;) )
>> absolutely makes sense to me.
>> As for the timeline: It makes sense to me to get the kpeople2 version out
>> soon, but since I care a lot about "version numbering psychology", I'm not
>> sure if we should call it 0.8. Up to know, new 0.X releases of KTp usually
>> contained at least some new user-visible features.
>> Though the kpeople2 merge is a big deal from the technical side, for users
>> it will mostly mean fixed problems (not that this isn't important!) rather
>> than new features, right?
>> Therefore I'm thinking that maybe it should be called 0.7.5 or something, as
>> in "The features of 0.7, but now they work much better".
>
>  From a feature and marketing point of view, yes I would agree with you.
>
> For a "not being murdered by packagers" point of view we have to bump
> the major version to change dependencies.

I didn't know version numbers actually had technical implications. In 
that case, the technical considerations win, of course (especially since 
we're still rather conservative with version numbers, compared to 
certain other applications...).