Another great update

[Jaroslav Reznik]

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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