On 3 Nov 2002, Joe Klemmer wrote: >Date: 03 Nov 2002 12:47:38 -0500 >From: Joe Klemmer <klemmerj@webtrek.com> >To: psyche-list@redhat.com >Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; > protocol="application/pgp-signature"; > boundary="=-+VwdG54yCbIjLcVtx1V1" >List-Id: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Psyche) <psyche-list.redhat.com> >Subject: Re: cdrecord obsolete > >[Warning! Rant to follow!] > >On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 19:12, Mike A. Harris wrote: > >> Regardless, it is named an 'alpha' release, and as maintainer of >> the package in Red Hat Linux, it wont go into Red Hat Linux until >> it is an official stable release. If the author claims it to be >> more stable and reliable than 1.10, then he should release it as >> 1.12 or whatever and continue developing new code in a new >> development tree. > > This is one of the real difficulties on the Software Libre world. >Developers (individual and in groups) have confused the whole 'alpha', >'beta', 'gama' thing and have completely made useless version >numbering. Mike points to one of the issues. If a product is better >and more stable than a previous version there's absolutely no reason it >should not be a release version. Another example is gaim. It's on >version 0.59.x yet it's likely the most usable and stable IM client >out. Why it isn't version 1 is beyond me. Don't get me wrong, I happen >to love gaim and think it is great. But why is it still 0.anything? > > I have a lot more I can say on this but I'm not feeling so well at the >moment. Maybe I'll post a complete rant somewhere sometime... I agree completely. So many software developers are completely clueless when it comes to versioning. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer XFree86 maintainer Red Hat Inc. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
