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Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] FW: Changing Eclipse BIRT Indigo Version Number to BIRT 3.7

>   I wonder how many other WTP adopters also have the same preference.

I know most adopters (all except you? :) would have a fit if we changed our bundle versions that way. Features ... I'm not so sure. I know of less breaking dependencies there ... but, there could be depending on how they defined relationships, and I am pretty sure most would not like it. So we in WTP decided long ago to "follow the rules" when it comes to bundles and feature versions.

We have (also) decided to use yearly release names in some places, such as our repository URLs, such as
http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/repository/helios/
(See http://wiki.eclipse.org/WTP/Retention_Policy#Features_in_update_site_repository for details)

I suspect we all could do a better job of labeling and discussing high level things with release names, rather than numbers. For example, the Platform, a year or two ago, started to use the yearly release name (Helios, Indigo) in their splash screen, rather then the platform version number. I thought that was great.

I agree its confusing, but I think the current versioning rules make the best of a bad, inherently complicated situation. If you'd like to remind your self how it used to be even worse, you can go back and read the 128 comments in a bug from 2005  bug 99393 (On the PRETTY BAD practice of NOT VERSIONING Eclipse)  That bug was mostly about version numbers not changing enough, but it did give rise to our current rules.

I suggest if anyone sees a webpage or something where the yearly name would serve better than a project's main version number then that would be a valid bug. I was going to mention that perhaps a central place to list project versions in yearly releases, but I see there is already such a central list for Helios, though I do not know how that list is created, and it appears a bit out of date and inconsistent.  

I'm also not sure what problem is being solved ... one for end users? Or release engineers? ... but perhaps the problem would be reduced or broken into smaller pieces, and bugs opened to make some improvements, though I suspect it'll always be confusing to some degree.

Thanks,


 

 



From:        Wenfeng Li <wli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To:        Cross project issues <cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:        01/28/2011 04:27 PM
Subject:        Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] FW: Changing Eclipse BIRT        Indigo        Version        Number to BIRT 3.7
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There is indeed change in the BIRT runtime API that require clients of BIRT runtime to make a change  (while only a simple change,  It is still a change).
 
The reason of matching the platform release number is  to meet request from BIRT adopters.    
 
Actually, as an WTP adopter,  It will help us as well if WTP also change its release number to follow platforms.   I wonder how many other WTP adopters also have the same preference.
 
Wenfeng
 
From: cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David M Williams
Sent:
Friday, January 28, 2011 1:10 PM
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Cross project issues
Subject:
Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] FW: Changing Eclipse BIRT Indigo Version Number to BIRT 3.7

 
You are at 2.6.x for Helios, right? How'd the heck you get to 4.0 anyway!? :)  I'm not a (direct) consumer of BIRT, so doesn't matter to me directly ... but from a Simultaneous Release point of view, we all should be following the guidelines in http://wiki.eclipse.org/Version_Numbering, right? Is that not known? Or are there reasons for an exception in your case? I am not asking for the purpose of giving you or your project a hard time, but just wanted to know if there is a way we as a community can help?

And now that you've settled on 3.7, let me ask ... are you sure? Are there really breaking API changes that justify the increase in 'major' field from 2.6 to 3.7? If not, why not "2.7"?


Especially for plugins. If adopters specified version ranges for their birt bundle prereqs as is recommended and commonly done, such as [2.6,3.0), then they they will automatically be broken by the change in versioning, If there are indeed breaking API or behavior changes then that's "good" ... but, if there are no breaking changes, then that's "bad" as it requires change in source for no reason. Adopters are often frustrated by having to make such "meaningless" changes.


It is a little less harmful to make major-field changes in feature versions, and I have seen cases where people follow the "versioning rules" strictly for bundles, but may loosen up the rules for features; if that helps.


Of course, you may have very good reasons for making these "major changes" and if so, that's great, thanks for keeping us all well informed. But, if your reason is just that you want to "match the platform" ... well, that's hard if not impossible to do, and IMHO not a good reason to breaking your adopters. But, as I said ... I am not an adopter, so just take this as advise, not a complaint.


FYI for all: one implication of feature version numbering "going down" is that our previous-milestone-composites will have to be removed ... so sounds like M6 common repo will be only M6 (no composite pointers to M5, M4, etc.).


Thanks again, for keep us all informed.  







From:        
Xiaoying Gu <xgu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To:        
"cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx" <cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:        
01/28/2011 04:30 AM
Subject:        
[cross-project-issues-dev] FW: Changing Eclipse BIRT Indigo Version        Number to BIRT 3.7
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cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx






Hi All,

 
BIRT project is planning to change the main release number from 4.0 to 3.7 for Indigo release.

Considering that the Indigo M5 is quite close, we will not make this change for M5.

 
The changes will include feature version change and plugin version change, which might affect download stream projects.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

 
 
Thanks,

Xiaoying

 
From:
birt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [
mailto:birt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Clenahan
Sent:
2011
127 9:39
To:
birt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:
[birt-dev] Changing Eclipse BIRT Indigo Version Number to BIRT 3.7

 
Team,

 
For the BIRT project’s Indigo release in June of this year, our plan continues to be to match the BIRT version number with the Eclipse Platform version number used for Indigo. Going forward, this will make it easier for everyone to remember which version of BIRT is designed to work with which version of the Platform. And with Indigo being the 8th major release of the BIRT project, there is no downside with updating the release number to match the Platform release.

 
At the outset of the Indigo project, it was an open question whether Indigo would be Eclipse 3.7 or 4.0 – so as a short term measure, we adopted BIRT 4.0 as the working release number for BIRT Indigo. Now that the Indigo release will be designated Eclipse 3.7, we plan to update BIRT Indigo to use the BIRT 3.7 designation.

 
So, consider this a heads-up that in the next week or so you will see the designation of the BIRT release we are working on for June change from BIRT 4.0 to BIRT 3.7.

 
Let us know if you have any questions.

 
Regards,

 
Paul Clenahan

BIRT PMC

 
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