[rsyslog] rsyslog 3.0.0 stable? - feedback, please

[Raoul Bhatia [IPAX]]

Rainer Gerhards wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> a question on the forum
> (http://www.rsyslog.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-p-1113.phtml#1113 ) and a bit
> asking around finally made me think about the possibility of a v3 stable
> version, something that dangled on my mind for a while now... While it
> is just three month since v2 stable, we have gone a long way and during
> that time the new queue engine has much matured. As "development" state
> is most often a show-stopper for putting code into production, I think
> about releasing a 3.0.0 stable (based on the most recent 3.12.x version
> WITHOUT RELP support).
> 
>>From a support perspective, I'd like to continue support v2 stable and
> obviously v3 stable and development concurrently. Development would
> continue with 3.13.0 (RELP support), and 3.0.0 would only receive bug
> fixes. Some time from now, 3.<whatever>.<whatever> would become 3.1.0
> stable. At this point, I would drop support/fixing for 3.0.<whatever>
> and ask users with problems in the branch to update to 3.1.<whatever>.

i guess this will cause serious headake because people tend to think
like this:

3.0.x  is less mature/was released before
3.1.x  is less mature/was released before
3.12.x is less mature/was released before
3.13.x

i guess there should be a deliberate versioning scheme. examples are:

- versioning similar to the linux kernel
- release 3.12.x as 3.12.x-stable and continue development without this
   tag.
- something else

but i guess its no good to jump from 3.12.x back to 3.0.x and from a
future revision such as 3.40.x back to 3.1.x

cheers,
raoul
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