RE: [wtp-dev] What to do about feature version numbers?

[John Lanuti <jlanuti@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Any other comments here?  Was this
discussed in the PMC?  Do we need to discuss on Thursday?

My feeling is that, to users, they would
expect to see 2.0.  I think 1.6 would be confusing to them.  Raghu
is right though, to developers, bumping to 2.0 might set the wrong expectations.

John Lanuti
IBM Web Tools Platform Technical Lead, IBM Rational
IBM Software Lab - Research Triangle Park, NC
jlanuti@xxxxxxxxxx
t/l 441-7861

"raghunathan srinivasan" <raghunathan.srinivasan@xxxxxxxxxx>
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I have moved JSF to version
1.0. 
 
For WST and JST, my preference
is to follow the guideline and stick to 1.6. 2.0 sets the wrong expectation
of major changes in those projects.
-Raghu

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Subject: [wtp-dev] What to do about feature version numbers?
 

Many of our WST and JST features are still versioned 1.6, which is what
we bumped 
to right after 1.5 was released. 

My thinking is that the WST and JST features should be versioned 2.0, to
match "WTP 2.0". 
This does not technically match the guidelines put forth in 
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Version_Numbering
which would recommend a bit closer relation to the type of change in contained
plugins 
to the feature version ... which means we should leave our features at
1.6. 

It seems to me, though, that users looking at a list of installed features
would expect 
them to match 2.0. In other words, seems to me, the JST and WST features
are more 
of a "marketing number" related to the major yearly release,
rather than a runtime constraint
as the plugin versioning is. 

What do others think? 1.6? 2.0? Don't care? 

BTW, I do think the JPA and JSF features should be 1.0, since this is the
first year of 
their release. 


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