[wp-hackers] Re: WordPress 3

[Shannon Whitley]

>From: "Doug Stewart" <zamoose at gmail.com>

>Gentoo and Ubuntu have been doing that for a while and, well, I don't like
it.  I'd have a hard time putting a finger on it, but it just seems, well,
>weird.  While the releases tied to a year (or, as in Madden's case, tied to
the NEXT year) make sense for a product released once-yearly, it somehow
just
>comes off as a bit geeky for

I completely agree with Doug on this one.  With Microsoft, I always feel
like I'm behind, and it's not a good feeling.  Great for marketing, but it
may make the user feel strange when they are using a perfectly valid WP 2007
and it's now 2008.

--Shannon


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Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 06:55:08 -0400
From: "Doug Stewart" <zamoose at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] WordPress 3
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On 5/17/07, Mark Jaquith <mark.wordpress at txfx.net> wrote:
> On May 17, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Lloyd Budd wrote:
>
> > It is a while off, but I thought I would plant the seed now for 
> > WordPress 2.3 to be branded as WordPress 3.
>
>   It's only 4 months away.  I'm not sure we can do enough of a radical 
> rewrite in 3 months (remember, last month is locked down for
> bugs) to justify such a huge jump.
>
> There is one nice solution for the "marketing problem" that I keep 
> throwing out there every couple months:  WordPress 2008.  Do it like a 
> sports video game franchise does it.  For multiple releases within
> a year, we can do WordPress 2007.2 or WordPress 2007b.   This works
> well with our new 4-month cycle.  And people will be made aware of 
> exactly how long it has been since they've upgraded.
>

Gentoo and Ubuntu have been doing that for a while and, well, I don't like
it.  I'd have a hard time putting a finger on it, but it just seems, well,
weird.  While the releases tied to a year (or, as in Madden's case, tied to
the NEXT year) make sense for a product released once-yearly, it somehow
just comes off as a bit geeky for
twice- or thrice-yearly.  (Feisty Fawn being 2007.4, for instance.)

The nice thing about a release numbering scheme not tied to chronology is
that it leaves you free to indicate to users the relative "weight" you give
a release.  Since we've been talking about what would constitute a 2.x->3
jump, I think we're keyed in on this notion fairly well.

People have been using X.Y numbering schemes since almost the beginning of
computer science and there's a certain expectation built into that at this
point.  People look at a 3.0 product and figure "Hey, must be some big
changes from 2.x" whereas there's no way to evoke that reaction when they
say "Well, 2006.10 was okay, but 2007.4 is where it's REALLY at!"

Hope I'm making some modicum of sense -- it's early and I've not yet had any
caffeine.
-- 
-Doug

http://literalbarrage.org/blog/


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