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Subject: Re: [ubl-ndrsc] Versioning Notes
From: "Eve L. Maler" <>
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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 22:51:54 -0500
It makes for a very long upgrade cycle, and these days I'd be more
inclined to just say that it must be announced only at least one *minor*
revision prior to the major revision's release. The world just moves
faster now, and the advent of XML and -- especially -- XSLT has
increased people's tolerance for simple syntactic upgrades. (For
DocBook's original time, it made a ton of sense.)
Eve
Jon Bosak wrote:
> | Bill, note this: In Closing Plenary we discussed (Jon brought up)
> | that when making a Major change, that will affect backward
> | compatibility, that instead of making it in the next Major
> | release, you announce the change will be made in the next Major
> | release. So this means you actually go through 2 Major releases,
> | the second being where the change actually takes place.
>
> I was describing the policy adopted by Davenport for DocBook (as
> well as I could remember it). The policy was that if you are at
> version (N-1).M and you want to make a backwards-incompatible
> change then you don't get to make that change in N.0 but just get
> to announce in release N.0 that the feature will be changed in
> version (N+1).0.
>
> I wasn't urging this, just noting it as something to consider.
> Somewhere along the line we might want to ask the opinions of the
> co-maintainers of that specification back then: Eve Maler and
> Eduardo Gutentag.
>
> Jon
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