Re: [rt-pmc] ECF review slides

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tom and Jeff,

RE: the default versioning scheme.  I'm not sure whether we're going to 
have a major version change in 2010 or not.  I think this is a tricky 
decision for us, as we have parts of ECF that are now depended  upon by 
the platform (core and file transfer)...and clearly breaking changes 
should not/have not/will not be made there, but OTOH, we have parts of 
ECF that may need to introduce breaking changes (e.g. to deal with 
RFC119 changes).  I'm not sure how this should/can 'bubble' up to the 
project-level version change.

So although I can/will commit to not having breaking API changes for the 
parts of ECF that are contributed to the platform, I don't think it 
makes sense to do this uniformly...as there are other parts of ECF that 
'want' to move faster/focus more on innovation.

Any further thoughts appreciated.   I don't know what the versioning 
will be for ECF in the next simultaneous release, but I'll just leave it 
open until we have some discussion about it.

Scott

Jeff McAffer wrote:
> I echo Tom's comments.  Slides look good but N+1 should not be the 
> default versioning scheme.  People need some level of stability.
>
> Jeff
>
> Thomas Watson wrote:
> > Slides look good to me.
> >
> > My only comment is on the future plans for ECF 4.0. Do you have a 
> > major release each year with a major version increase? Do you always 
> > anticipate on making breaking changes for each yearly release? My 
> > concern is for the ECF bundles which are now part of the Equinox 
> > release. Down in the core platform we tend to keep the major version 
> > of our bundles for many releases. I am wondering how much breaking 
> > changes we should anticipate in our dependencies on ECF.
> >
> > This comment should not hold up your submission of the slides.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
> >
> > Inactive hide details for Scott Lewis ---05/29/2009 09:54:26 
> > AM---Attached please find the ECF 3.0/Galileo review slides.Scott 
> > Lewis ---05/29/2009 09:54:26 AM---Attached please find the ECF 
> > 3.0/Galileo review slides.
> >
> >
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> > Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> > Date: 	
> > 05/29/2009 09:54 AM
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> > [rt-pmc] ECF review slides
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> > Attached please find the ECF 3.0/Galileo review slides.
> > [attachment "ECF Project 3.0 Release Review.pdf" deleted by Thomas 
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