Comments on: Bazaar 0.12 released – check out the smart server! http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/80 Planetary perspectives Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:30:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Gord Allott http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/80/comment-page-1#comment-13536 Gord Allott Tue, 14 Nov 2006 05:40:17 +0000 http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/80#comment-13536 thank heavens the whole 'adding random letters to the software instead of a version number' trend has gone, xp,? mx? gibberish is what it was thank heavens the whole ‘adding random letters to the software instead of a version number’ trend has gone, xp,? mx? gibberish is what it was

]]> By: Kirk Bridger http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/80/comment-page-1#comment-11080 Kirk Bridger Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:59:49 +0000 http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/80#comment-11080 Commercial software versioning is determined by non-developers usually. That's why the versioning is different in my opinion. Open Source versioning is usually determined by the devs who use a sane, systematic, lgical approach. Once the product actually needs to get sold or marketed to the public, versioning becomes part of the marketing. See Firefox for example. Why is 2.0 different than 1.5? Advantages and disadvantages to both approaches - it just depends on who is asking questions about the versions. Commercial software versioning is determined by non-developers usually. That’s why the versioning is different in my opinion. Open Source versioning is usually determined by the devs who use a sane, systematic, lgical approach. Once the product actually needs to get sold or marketed to the public, versioning becomes part of the marketing. See Firefox for example. Why is 2.0 different than 1.5?

Advantages and disadvantages to both approaches – it just depends on who is asking questions about the versions.

]]> By: Mike Morris http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/80/comment-page-1#comment-10992 Mike Morris Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:25:04 +0000 http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/80#comment-10992 Funny, I read that as "Boozer"... :-) Funny, I read that as “Boozer”… :-)

]]> By: lzap http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/80/comment-page-1#comment-10988 lzap Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:40:26 +0000 http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/80#comment-10988 Easy answer. The commerical projects has one goal - to achieve the final version in given time and fixed budget. There is usually no time for long testing, dozens of release candidates or refusing undocumented code. The team have to satisfy the boss by satisfying the customer by releasing some version. On the other hand open source has different goals - quality, scalability, platform independance. Open source evolves freely and usually do not know terms like customer, budget, invoicing date, vacation, holiday etc. Bigger open source projects are in the middle - good code + good marketing and management. I know one person at least who knows lots about this :-) Easy answer. The commerical projects has one goal – to achieve the final version in given time and fixed budget. There is usually no time for long testing, dozens of release candidates or refusing undocumented code. The team have to satisfy the boss by satisfying the customer by releasing some version.

On the other hand open source has different goals – quality, scalability, platform independance. Open source evolves freely and usually do not know terms like customer, budget, invoicing date, vacation, holiday etc. Bigger open source projects are in the middle – good code + good marketing and management. I know one person at least who knows lots about this :-)

]]> By: Jeremy http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/80/comment-page-1#comment-10972 Jeremy Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:00:49 +0000 http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/80#comment-10972 Because the commercial software has big bloated version numbers for marketing purposes. Would you rather use version 0.12 or version 12.0? Because the commercial software has big bloated version numbers for marketing purposes. Would you rather use version 0.12 or version 12.0?

]]> By: David Mackey http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/80/comment-page-1#comment-10968 David Mackey Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:34:46 +0000 http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/80#comment-10968 Why is it that open source products seem to have such a conservative versioning scheme as compared to commercial software? Why is it that open source products seem to have such a conservative versioning scheme as compared to commercial software?

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