Re: [eclipse.org-planning-council] Fwd: [ide-dev] Dropping the release n

[Nick Boldt <nickboldt@xxxxxxxxx>]

When you say "based on the year", how would that work?

Would it be like defining a school year as it spans two calendar years?

Neon.0, Neon.1, Neon.2, Neon.3,
Oxygen.0, Oxygen.1, Oxygen.2, Oxygen.3 ==>
16-17.0, 16-17.1, 16-17.2, 16-17.3,
17-18.0, 17-18.1, 17-18.2, 17-18.3

Or do you mean we'd drop the notion of the update release number (0,
1, 2, 3) and just use yyyy-mm, like Ubuntu does?

Neon.0, Neon.1, Neon.2, Neon.3,
Oxygen.0, Oxygen.1, Oxygen.2, Oxygen.3 ==>
2016-06, 2016-09, 2016-12, 2017-03,
2017-06, 2017-09, 2017-12, 2017-03


On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Doug Schaefer <cdtdoug@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For those not on the ide-dev list, there is a discussion over the desire to
> change to numerical release names based on the year. We've talked about
> that, but I'm not sure where we left it.
>
> Doug.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Doug Schaefer <cdtdoug@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [ide-dev] Dropping the release names (Neon, Oxygen) from user
> downloads
> To: Discussions about the IDE <ide-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> The June release has to be significantly named. It is the only release per
> year that allows major version changes to plug-ins. We need to make that
> clear to the community. As such, we can't use the month.
>
> BTW, I'll forward this discussion to the planning council mailing list so
> that they are brought up to speed on our thoughts. I'm not sure they're all
> here.
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 7:45 AM, Carsten Reckord <reckord@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 29.04.2016 10:44, Gunnar Wagenknecht wrote:
>>>
>>> Here is an experiment - any Chrome users out there? Who can tell me the
>>> last time they looked at the version number of their browser to see if their
>>> browser is old?
>>
>>
>> Actually just a few days ago, but that was coincidental.
>>
>> Chrome and Eclipse versions are pretty much apples and oranges - at least
>> as far as end users are concerned. Chrome has a very strong and smooth
>> update story that does a really good job of making the version irrelevant to
>> me. Eclipse doesn't.
>>
>> If we should ever get to the point where automatic updates can just be
>> applied seamlessly in the background, by all means, let's throw away all
>> user-facing code names and version numbers completely. I'd party hard on
>> that day...
>
>
> Yes, that's where we must head. We have the technology, we just need the
> discipline.
>
>>
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