From: Neil Stevens <neil@...>
Date: 2004-07-11T22:27:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Business application building with Ruby

Alexey Verkhovsky wrote:

> Thanks for the responses.
> 
> What should I make of the somewhat scary fact that most of the
> components mentioned, including ALL persistence layer stuff, have
> version numbers 0.something?
> 
> I thought, by convention, the first version that project developers
> consider "production-grade" would be numbered 1.0. Am I wrong?

I think you're right, but some developers have forgotten that the point of
the version number is to be a sign to the users.  They instead choose
numbers that have meaning to the developers but don't give the users any
sign of the importance of each version.

This is what happens when someone who's good at coding gets burdened with
release management.

-- 
Neil Stevens - neil @hakubi.us
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who
are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
                                                 -- Albert Einstein(?)