[Geany] Quo vadis, Geany?

[Lex Trotman]

2009/7/15 Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de>

> On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:44:42 +0200, Thomas wrote:
>
> >Nick Treleaven schrieb:
> >>  so sometime we can release v1.0.
> >
> >No, don't! :P
>
> Haha.
>
> @Filip:
> sorry, I missed that mail completely.
>
>
> In addition to Nick's answer, apart from the list in the TODO file,
> there is no big master plan for the far future (other than the
> usual taking over the world).
>
> About 1.0:
> I personally don't think so much of version numbers, they are often
> over-rated in my opinion. Version numbers are important to separate
> and ease identifying releases but the only real requirement for this is
> that version numbers are different, ideally increasing (:D).


For why should it be increasing? Perhaps Geany could start a trend of
decreasing version numbers starting from version 2^32 and when it reaches
zero that would indeed be a milestone ;-)

But for
> me, it doesn't mean much whether it's 0.17 or 1.1 or 1.5.3 or 22.5.2.7.
> In contrary, sometimes I get the impression people expect wonders
> once a project reaches a version 1.0 or they expect some super major
> changes after reaching that version number. For me, it's just the code
> which counts, not which version number it has.


Exactly right!!!  Moving to version 1.0 is a marketing issue to announce to
the world that it is ready for mainstream use (yeah even OSS has marketing,
its just not so overt). When I am searching for software for a particular
job I do tend to consider the version when deciding which ones to spend the
effort downloading, building and testing and 0.17 does look low.  So the
only reason to go to 1.0 would be to enhance your marketing in support of
world domination!!


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> Regards,
> Enrico
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