[Python-Dev] devguide: Backporting is obsolete. Add details that I had to learn.

[Matt Joiner]

http://semver.org/

This has made sense since Gentoo days.

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:49:04 +0000
> Rob Cliffe <rob.cliffe at btinternet.com> wrote:
>> But "minor version" and "major version" are readily understandable to
>> the general reader, e.g. me, whereas "feature release" and "release
>> series" I find are not.  Couldn't the first two terms be defined once
>> and then used throughout?
>
> To me "minor" is a bugfix release, e.g. 2.7.2, and "major" is a feature
> release, e.g. 3.3.  I have a hard time considering 3.2 or 3.3 "minor".
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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