[Geany-devel] How about calling the next release 1.0?

[Nicholas Manea]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Jon Senior <jon at restlesslemon.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:07:23 +0200
> Jiří Techet <techet at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > just one very quick and possibly stupid idea. How about getting rid of
> > the 0 version prefix and calling the next release 1.0? This would be
> > just numbering change, not some milestone based on features that have
> > to be implemented (similarly to renumbering linux kernel from 2.6.x to
> > 3.0).
> >
> > Rationale: the 0.xx versioning scheme makes an impression that Geany
> > is something very unstable that crashes every five minutes and whose
> > first release was made a few months back. Instead, Geany is a very
> > stable and reliable editor with lots of features and several years of
> > history.
> >
> > I know there are some 1.0 TODOs here:
> >
> > http://www.geany.org/Documentation/ToDo
> >
> > like the ABI stability for plugins and other features. But
> >
> > 1. Will the ABI be ever considered stable? Is it really needed? (All
> > the plugins I know are open source and the combined plugin project is
> > kept in sync with the development release so there's no real problem
> > even if the API changes).
> >
> > 2. I think there's no need to require some specific features for the
> > 1.0 release. The current set of features makes already a very good
> > editor and extra features can always be introduced in later versions.
> >
> > I already find Geany more usable for my needs than editors having 2011
> > as their version number so I believe it deserves the 1 prefix. What is
> > your opinion?
>
> As a quiet reader of this mailing list and (very) occasional
> contributor, I agree wholeheartedly. I've been using geany as my
> principle IDE for the last 4 years, the last three of which have been
> spent as a professional developer. Firefox (now on version 4) crashes
> at least twice a week (although mainly due to Flash). Netbeans (version
> 7.0) ties itself in a knot at least once a week, while consuming all
> available resources. OpenOffice (version 3) will occasionally just
> vanish without even an error message, sheepishly offering me the chance
> to recover documents on restart. Through all of this geany goes from
> reboot to reboot without dropping a byte. I think it's time to
> recognise that! :-)
>

+1. But I needed to learn C for some program of mine which uses GTK+. So I
hope to look through the code and contribute to Geany :)


>
> Jon
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Nick
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