Re: [xwiki-devs] [discussion] Synchronizing version numbers of applications, plugins, and core.

I have been observing problems with the versioning scheme which we are using. Because applications are not branched along with core, when a bugfix version of a stable branch is released, new versions of applications are typically pulled in. This means that `experimental' code is being introduced into a `stable' branch in a bugfix version. This is not the path I would choose but more importantly we can't honestly say that our code goes through a milestone/release candidate verification process if some of the code is allowed to bypass it. This situation has caused me to make a mistake which I was able to correct during the release without major issue, I think the same issue is behind the release of 2 bogus versions (2.4.1 and 2.4.2) There is another issue, users who want to mix and match applications to build their own wiki are faced with a set of version numbers and no way to know what is compatible with what. A user who I spoke with last night had this very problem. We could publish a compatibility matrix but if we were to show all the versions a given application is compatible with, that would require testing each application version against each core version and I think we need to concentrate on testing what gets released in XE. Both of these problems would be fixed if version numbers were synchronized and everything was branched for a release. Relevant questions which come to mind are "do we need the capability to release applications at separate times?" and "is there no way to do that with synchronized version numbers?" Am I missing any other reasons? Should this not become a proposal? Caleb _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs