[Serdev] Versioning summary

[Jan Janak]

Hello,

As there were no posts regarding the version change recently, let me try
to summarize the debate. I went through all the posts on that thread and
tried to collect all proposals. For each of them I tried to identify the
people who were supporting it.

Please let me know if something is missing or not accurate asap (some
posts were ambiguous and it may happen that I assigned people to wrong
proposals by mistake). One such example is the email from Klaus, I could
not figure out whether you wanted a change or not, so your name does not
appear in the text below (let me know if you wanted to make yourself
more specific).

A) Change/no change

   Change: Greger, Jan, Jiri, Samuel, Michal, Bogdan
   No change: Andrei, Dragos, Atle

B) Version scheme proposals:

   1) 0.X.Y (cvs) and X.Y (to the public):
      Where X is major number and Y is patch level or minor number
      Supported by: Andrei, Jiri

   2) 0.X.Y
      Where X is major number and Y is minor/patch level
      Supported by: Atle

   3) X.Y.Z
      Where X is major number, Y is minor number and Z is patch level:
      Supported by: Greger, Jan, Michal, Bogdan, Samuel

C) Proposals for Ottendorf version:

   1) 0.11.0
      Supported by: Atle

   2) 0.11.0/11.0
      Supported by: Andrei, Jiri, Dragos

   3) 2.0(.0)
      Supported by: Greger, Jan, Samuel, Michal

The conclusion from the text above is that most people wanted a change
in SER versioning and the most preferred variant is X.Y.Z where X is
major number, Y is minor number and Z is patch level.

When it comes to the version of the next release, there were only two
alternatives in the thread (proposals like use the SVN revision numbers
do not appear here because we do not use SVN). The most preferred one
seems to be 2.0.

We need to make a decision before the next release is out and I suggest
we go for 2.0.0 because this seems to be what most people involved in
the discussion want.

If somebody believes there are issues that have not been discussed
properly and that could make people change their minds, or if your
opinion has been misinterpreted, please speak up now. If not, we have a
decision.

   Jan.