| Re: [ecf-dev] ECF Kepler Status |
On 05/24/2013 05:49 PM, Eclipse Webmaster (Denis Roy) wrote: > Actually, I believe Wim originally called it a "maintenance release" which: > > A *maintenance release* (also *minor release*) is a release of a product > that does not add new features or content. For instance, in computer > software <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software>, > maintenance releases <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release> are > typically intended to solve minor problems, typically "bugs > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug>" or security > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security> issues > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maintenance_release Btw. this definition does not hold WRT OSGi semantic versioning where a breaking change in a provider type interface is still a minor version change: "A change in the second (minor) part of the version signals that the change is backward compatible with consumers of the API package but not with the providers of that API." [1] page 2 Btw. technically I can argue that the change we are talking about is indeed a provider type change that does not demand a major version increment. Thanks Markus [1] http://www.osgi.org/wiki/uploads/Links/SemanticVersioning.pdf