[Libguestfs] Proposed change in the version numbering system

At the moment I post new versions when I feel there has been a significant amount of work and/or time passed since the previous release. This however does not give a good indication of the quality of the release, for example if it includes mainly bugfixes and stability improvements, or bleeding edge features. Therefore I would like to propose a change to the way that libguestfs versions are numbered. This is modeled on the old Linux kernel scheme. Each version will be: 1.X.Y We won't change the initial '1' unless at some point in the future we decided to release a non-backwards-compatible libguestfs. There are no plans to do this. X is the "series". Even number == stable. Odd number == development. Y increments on every release in the series. Because I'm happy with 1.0.89, this will become the first stable version: 1.2.0 Thus the next development versions will be: 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, ... During this time we will backport selected bug fixes and stability improvements (only!) to: 1.2.1, 1.2.2, ... At some point when sufficient new features have accrued we will decide to make a new stable release and a new development series at the same time: 1.4.0 (stable release) 1.5.0 (new development release) (Note that 1.2.0, 1.4.0, .. themselves might not be stable, since they are just a fork of a development release, but by continuing development, finding bugs and backporting them, the 1.2, 1.4, .. branches should stabilize over time). I will also add branches in git at the appropriate points. I will continue to push the latest development version into Rawhide as quickly as possible, but for released versions of Fedora (eg. the up-coming Fedora 13) I will stick to stable releases only. I hope all of this makes sense. If anyone has any questions or objections, please follow-up to this message. Rich. PS. Sorry that the git repo is still down. After we moved the server we had an unexpected hardware problem, and I'm moving the server to new hardware today. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top