[et-mgmt-tools] Planning for Cobbler 0.9.X (development branch)

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan at redhat.com> wrote:
> Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>  > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan at redhat.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >> Given we've released the 0.7.X branch work into 0.8 already, I have
>  >>  updated the roadmap with what I think are the more important RFEs here:
>  >>
>  >>  https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/TheRoadmap
>  >>
>  >>  If there are any features/changes you'd really like to see in a future
>  >>  version of Cobbler (whether in Trac or not), let me know.
>  >>  If you have a Fedora account (https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/)
>  >>  you can file items in Trac directly, email
>  >>  works fine also.
>  >>
>  >>  This is just a list of some of the things I think need to be in there,
>  >>  if you have patches for other things, they are welcome too.
>  >>
>  >>  Ideally the development branch would exist for a few months before
>  >>  Cobbler 0.10 stable would be rolled out -- basically like before.
>  >>
>  >>
>  >
>  > What makes a 1.00 version of the software? That is the only question I
>  > have had come up when talking about it.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  Numbers are meaningless.   It might as well be a 1.0, and at this point
>  it seems to make sense.
>
>  In RPM versions 0.10 is still greater than 0.8, so either works.   My
>  only concern is that to uneducated eyes, "0.10 == 0.1" (even though
>  that is not true) so calling it 1.0 may be better.   Still "1.0" is not
>  substantially different by "0.8" other than it differs by "0.2".
>
>  Cobbler currently follows the kernel convention:
>
>  Odd:   Development
>  Even:  Stable
>
>  Still I encourage anyone that is inferring anything else from version
>  numbers to not do it.

The thing I have found in dealing with 'enterprise' environments is
that numbering means more than it should. You can take 0.6 and make it
1.0 and then make 0.5 1.1 and managers will clammer that they can now
use it because 1.1 is stable enough for their environment.


-- 
Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"