RE: [eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Nov 8, 2006

[Tod Creasey <Tod_Creasey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

As it has been mentioned twice now I
will mention it here - we are planning to update the splash screen (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=153668)
but are awaiting the result of the launching plan item (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=154088)
and the discussion here before we proceed.

Tod

"Ed Burnette" <Ed.Burnette@xxxxxxx>
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I think you should call the upcoming release of the
Eclipse SDK "Version 4.0" or perhaps "Version 4" instead
of 3.3. Then the one in 2008 should be "Version 5", and so forth.
You can call its maintenance release "Version 4.1". There's no
technical reason NOT to do this because when it comes to checking version
number ranges (major vs. minor, breaking vs. non-breaking, etc.), those
checks are done with the plug-in version numbers, not the SDK version number.
Also, it would quickly get the Eclipse SDK version number out of the way
of all the plug-in version numbers, which for the most part were grandfathered
to start at 3.something.

I don't particularly like the year idea because then the release would
have 3 names: a version number, a year, and a release train name. Two is
confusing enough.

Also I don't think referring to the Eclipse SDK as "Europa" is
a good idea for several reasons. For one thing, it still needs a number
somewhere. There are plenty of people who don't refer to 3.2 as Callisto
(we don't, for example, because employees are supposed to get Eclipse from
an internal site and not an external "Callisto" site). I'm a
bit concerned that names like Europa and Io might have to change due to
some internationalization issue (remember "Nova"?). And besides,
English version identifiers don't reflect the global nature of the Eclipse
community.

Version numbers don't have to be translated, they scale well, they sort,
they handle maintenance releases, and everybody understands them.

P.S. - The Eclipse SDK splash still incorrectly says "3.2" in
3.3M3.

--Ed
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette
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