[Xastir] Stable release plus version numbering

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 03:09:10PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <r.polivka at sbcglobal.net> flavor, containing:
> I believe that this is/was the way that the Linux kernel is sequenced. 
> Up front, it would tell us where the package stands.

It seems a bit much to kick us up to 2.0.  This is hardly a major release.
If being consistent with the more common numbering convention is important,
I'd rather see us consider this a minor release and kick up to 1.9.0 (with 
development snapshots being considered patches).  The differences between our 
current stable release and this one are mostly bug fixes, and perhaps a few 
extra features (like, did we have the default shapefile stuff in there for the 
1.8.4 stable release?).

The more I think on it, the more I think that stable releases should be
considered a good definition of minor releases, and that snapshots make
sense as patch releases, since they're invariably just a few bug fixes 
different from the last stable version.

> Curt, WE7U wrote:
> >I think we should put out a stable release as soon as possible.
> >
> >This seems like a good time to do it as it has been some months
> >since the last, plus the codebase has been fairly stable, with
> >mostly bug-fixes going in for a while.
> >
> >This is just a feeler to see if anyone has any major headaches with
> >it.  If not, how about a release date sometime in the first couple
> >of weeks of April?
> >
> >This would either be release 1.8.6 or we could start using the
> >recommended numbering scheme and go with 2.0:
> >
> ><http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-Release-Practice-HOWTO/index.html>
> >
> >The third digit is supposed to be patch levels for a release, as in
> >major.minor.patch numbering.  If we adopted this strategy then we
> >could go with 2.1 for our next development version and 2.2 for the
> >following stable release.
> >
> >Thoughts?
> >
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