Re: 10.0

Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>

From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>

To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Cc: Mark Dilger <hornschnorter@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Josh berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2016-05-14T14:23:41Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 05/14/2016 07:08 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 8:00 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> Any project that starts inflating its numbering scheme sends a message to
>>> users of the form, "hey, we've just been taken over by marketing people, and
>>> software quality will go down from now on."
>>
>> I don't think this is about version number inflation, but actually more
>> the opposite.  What you're calling the major number is really a marketing
>> number.  There is not a technical distinction between major releases where
>> we choose to bump the first number and those where we choose to bump the
>> second.  It's all about marketing.  So to me, merging those numbers would
>> be an anti-marketing move.  I think it's a good move: it would be more
>> honest and transparent about what the numbers mean, not less so.
>
> "Marketing" and "honesty" are not antonyms, and thinking that
> marketing is unimportant for the success of the project is not
> correct.

+1

JD



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