Proposal on the platform API policy question

[Duncan Coutts]

On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 00:45 +0100, Ross Paterson wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:54:13PM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> > Thanks to everyone who took part in the recent discussion on API
> > compatibility in minor platform releases. In response to the points
> > raised, Don and I would like to propose the following:
> > 
> >       * Bug fix only in minor releases
> >       * Change platform version numbers to follow the PVP
> >       * 4 month major release cycles for the first 12 months
> >       * Review major release cycle frequency after 12 months
> 
> Sounds good.  Perhaps it would be less confusing to use PVP terminology
> for HP too, i.e. avoid speaking of minor releases and call them patchlevel
> releases.  (In those terms, HP will not have minor releases.)

Good idea.

Duncan