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Subject: Re: Naming conventions for superseded version numbers
Subject:Subject: Re: Naming conventions for superseded version numbers From:"Robert Plamondon" <robert -at- plamondon -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 9 Oct 2003 08:16:28 -0700
I think industry practice is something like this:
* Integer version numbers, such as 5.0, are used when you want to make a big
publicity splash or want the users to pay a hefty upgrade fee. These
releases presumably include important new features.
* Version numbers that increment the tenth's digit, such as 5.1, provide
modest feature enhancements that may or may not be free.
* Version numbers that increment the hundredth's digit, such as 5.1.1 are
bug-fix releases, and are generally free. Microsoft is presumably using
"Service Pack" numbering instead of hundredths.
When a project becomes moribund, as FrameMaker did after Adobe bought Frame
Technologies, management tends to paper over the lack of progress and the
absence of new features by glorifying modest feature-enhancement releases as
major releases. By rights, FrameMaker 7.0 would be somewhere in the 4.5-5.5
range, depending on how generous you're feeling.
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