[eclipse-dev] Versioning with single stream

[Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I'd like to discuss the way we deal with bundle versions in the Eclipse project.

Currently it seems like https://wiki.eclipse.org/Version_Numbering still applies. Doesn't it? That means that to bump a micro version because of a bugfix, we need do add 0.0.100.

Now that we have a single stream of development, could we and should we make it simpler and use +0.0.1 in such case?

One benefit I see is simplification and more standard practices that may make the project more accessible to new contributors. Indeed, doing +0.0.1 seems now technically sufficient, and it's also what the vast majority of other projects using various technologies are doing. +0.0.100 is an Eclipse oddity (doesn't mean it is necessarily bad, but it's definitely unusual) and oddities are making the project less accessible to potential contributors as it requires them to learn specific versioning scheme.

So removing oddity makes project simpler to maintain and contribute to.

What do you think?

If some consensus or super majority in favor of the change emerge from this disucssion, we could then escalate it to PMC for review and approval.

Cheers,