[development] Suggestion for people releasing new modules and themes into CVS

Michelle Cox mcox at charter.net
Mon Sep 18 14:14:18 UTC 2006


On 9/16/2006 2:35:50 PM, Chris Johnson (chris at tinpixel.com) wrote:
> Khalid B wrote:
>
> > Another problem is that we often
> don't know if the next release will be
> > an x+1.0 or x.y+1, so we can't
> say "ported for 5.0" before Dries makes
> > that decision. This is another case where code names for future
> releases
> > will help.
>
> That is probably the single best argument I've seen for code naming 
> releases
> before they are released -- so we can refer to them easily and accurately 
> in
> documentation of all kinds (project pages, CVS comments, postings, etc.).

It's been named 5.0 for a while and is far from released. I'm not a dev, so 
maybe I'm off base here, but I don't see a big need to have a definite name 
before the code freeze...

Michelle



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