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RE: [wtp-dev] What to do about feature version numbers?


Yes, it was discussed and decided at PMC meeting ... it was felt the lessor evil was to go ahead and bump up to 2.0, in the interest of end-user usability (and readability).
(for JST and WST, JSF and JPA features still at 1.0).

I'll make some mass changes to any features I have write access to ... and we can tweak next week if I miss any.

Thanks,

BTW, this does not mean we do not agree with
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Version_Numbering  

Just that it doesn't work well for end-users looking at long lists of features in the 'about' box (or, update site).
There may be "marketing version labels" supported someday to make both technical accuracy and readability
both feasible, but in the mean time, there's little reason to constrain feature versions.

Some adopters _MIGHT_ have to adjust their features ... if they said in one of their features,
for example, that wst.xml feature version 1.6 was required.
But ... the current recommendation is that dependancies be expressed in terms of plugins anyway,
not features.

Thanks all.






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Any other comments here?  Was this discussed in the PMC?  Do we need to discuss on Thursday?


My feeling is that, to users, they would expect to see 2.0.  I think 1.6 would be confusing to them.  Raghu is right though, to developers, bumping to 2.0 might set the wrong expectations.


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I have moved JSF to version 1.0.
 
For WST and JST, my preference is to follow the guideline and stick to 1.6. 2.0 sets the wrong expectation of major changes in those projects.

-Raghu

 





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Many of our WST and JST features are still versioned 1.6, which is what we bumped
to right after 1.5 was released.

My thinking is that the WST and JST features should be versioned 2.0, to match "WTP 2.0".

This does not technically match the guidelines put forth in
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Version_Numbering

which would recommend a bit closer relation to the type of change in contained plugins

to the feature version ... which means we should leave our features at 1.6.

It seems to me, though, that users looking at a list of installed features would expect
them to match 2.0. In other words, seems to me, the JST and WST features are more
of a "marketing number" related to the major yearly release, rather than a runtime constraint

as the plugin versioning is.

What do others think? 1.6? 2.0? Don't care?

BTW, I do think the JPA and JSF features should be 1.0, since this is the first year of
their release.



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