Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 00:30:01 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: "Pedro Giffuni S," <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD really a project? (introduction to WISE) Message-ID: <199708090630.AAA09080@obie.softweyr.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <33DFA5EB.1766@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> References: <199707301659.KAA12699@xmission.xmission.com> <33DFA5EB.1766@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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Pedro Giffuni S. writes:
> One thing I have always wanted to know are what are the objectives
> behing each individual release..For example, what was so critical about
> 3.0 that deserved that great step in the numbering? It had to be
> something as drastic as the 4.3BSD to 4.4BSD update, but normal users
Never forget that version numbers are marketing, not engineering,
information. ;^) Oddly enough, I think Microsoft did the world a favor
with their NT "build number" information by tacitly admitting that
version numbers are *not* an engineering artifact anymore, if they ever
were.
I've recently been involved in a lot of dicussions of when to make the
software for my latest project "2.0"; what constitutes a big enough
feature upgrade. It came down to one big feature and whatever else we
can stuff into it in time. ;^) Strictly a marketing decision, too.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
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