[Typo3-dev] TYPO3 version 4.0.0?

[Kasper Skårhøj]

(I'm not sure this mail made it to the list in the first try...?)

Hi Folks.


I feel we are somehow locked into a bad version number cycle.

The next version of TYPO3 has been announced as 3.6.0. This is a step of
0.1 over 15 months! 
And if you look at the future plans for the core it is all about changes
that cannot fairly be said to justify a jump to 4.0.0 more than the
current release.

In one way we could say we don't care. But psychologically it might not
be wise to stay with "3.6.0, 3.6.1, 3.7.0,.... 3.11.0" etc. I think it
would be more close to the truth if we moved like "4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.5.0,
4.6.0, 5.0.0" etc.

Please understand that I'm not suggestion to inflate the version numbers
beyond recognition. I just think we are too "humble" currently (and
traditionally!)

The future could look like this:

4.0.0   
- Is the release we currently call 3.6.0, soon to come

4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4      
- Are the versions I will regularly upload to
http://130.228.0.33/t3dl/src/. Normally these uploads are more stable
than CVS. Most of the time I use these versions for production on my own
servers. Thus we could say, that a full number "x.x.x" should be used
when the developers trust the source for production while "x.x.x-dev"
should be used for non-trusted development (but that will most of the
time be in CVS anyways!)

4.1.0 or 4.5.0 (depending on what feels more right at the time)
- When versioning has been implemented.

4.6.0
- When LDAP is added

5.0.0
- When some great, yet unknown feature arrives or we see reason to make
the jump (can also be triggered by time alone).



I think this makes sense.
- We will send a more clear signal about the development of TYPO3 which
really *IS* ongoing and has been for years!
- We will not inflate version numbering since even with these
suggestions we will reach TYPO3 ver. 9.5.3 somewhere in 2011
- Generally, the core of TYPO3 is *not* what grows enourmously anymore;
That is extensions!
- We will avoid the question "TYPO3... hmm. Will there be a TYPO4?"



Just come up with some suggestions. We are not in a hurry. If we do a
jump that will happen first 30 minutes before 3.6.0 is finally
released...

-- 
Best regards

- kasper

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