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Subject: Re: [ubl-ndrsc] Versioning Notes
From: Jon Bosak <>
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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 19:26:18 -0800 (PST)
| Bill, note this: In Closing Plenary we discussed (Jon brought up)
| that when making a Major change, that will affect backward
| compatibility, that instead of making it in the next Major
| release, you announce the change will be made in the next Major
| release. So this means you actually go through 2 Major releases,
| the second being where the change actually takes place.
I was describing the policy adopted by Davenport for DocBook (as
well as I could remember it). The policy was that if you are at
version (N-1).M and you want to make a backwards-incompatible
change then you don't get to make that change in N.0 but just get
to announce in release N.0 that the feature will be changed in
version (N+1).0.
I wasn't urging this, just noting it as something to consider.
Somewhere along the line we might want to ask the opinions of the
co-maintainers of that specification back then: Eve Maler and
Eduardo Gutentag.
Jon
