On Monday 08 March 2010 10:41:18 Kalev Lember wrote:
On 03/08/2010 11:20 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> Major KDE update was in time of Fedora 9, so it's not an issue today.
>
> And this it the first problem - we should not call major, minor, bugfix
> release because it doesn't mean the same for every each app out in the
> wild!!!
Yes, it can get confusing. I think it was Kevin Kofler who suggested to
talk about "feature releases" vs. "bugfix releases" instead
to avoid confusion.
Again you can't cut bugfixes from features :(
> (KDE versioning is X.Y.Z where X is major, Y is minor and Z is
bugfix
> release).
I disagree. According to
kde.org and wikipedia, X.Y is called a major
release, and Z is maintainance update. A few quotes:
Ah, you're probably right - I've read it somewhere...
KDE 4.3.0 announcement,
http://www.kde.org/
> KDE 4.3.0 released
> /.../ KDE 4.3 is the latest major release in the KDE 4 series /.../
KDE standard releases,
http://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/KDE#Standard_releases
> There are two main types of releases, major releases and maintenance
> releases.
> Major releases (with two version numbers, for example 3.5) contain
> new features.
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