[Adium-devl] 1.2 ?!?

Chris Forsythe chris at adiumx.com
Wed Dec 26 02:39:20 UTC 2007


On Dec 25, 2007, at 4:03 PM, Colin Barrett wrote:

> On Dec 25, 2007, at 11:32 AM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
>
>> Trust our upstream friends a bit. A minor release of Adium - our
>> changes - could carry a major libpurple upgrade -the Pidgin team's
>> changes.   We're all on the same team in a broader sense, but the
>> separation of powers affords us fantastic benefits.
>
> I still don't understand why a minor release of Adium should have a
> major release of libpurple in it. I trust the pidgin folks, but it
> still makes little sense to take such large changes in dot releases.
>
> I have never understood why our micro releases are so huge, but I'm
> not doing the releasing so I guess it's not up to me.


I agree with Colin on this one actually. We should be pushing for  
only crashers and security fixes in minor point releases, and  
everything else in major releases.

That said, I could see 1.3 being just msnp14 :)

Chris





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