Guild Launch News
Guild Launch Release Version Number Changes
Greetings Everyone,
In order to sync up our releases a bit better with their relative scope and with user expectations of minor and major releases we are going to be changing our release numbering system. Since we release every 2-3 weeks and often release minor changes more often than that the 5.x.x system has too few numbers in it for our purposes and many people find 5.xx.xx where we would use 01-99 to be confusing.
Internally we actually use Piers Anthony book names as the release names, but very few people know that Unicorn Point comes after Robot Adept and I just pick a new book name anyway not necessarily in any order. Given that, we chose to just increment the minor version every release. This has worked out alright, but it has caused some version number inflation because of our quick release schedule. So, we are going to start using letters for minor versions.
The current release is 5.1f, the next minor release I am releasing today for some Death Knight changes is 5.1g. This will give us 23 minor revisions within a release. We'll work this new numbering into our announcements and refine as necessary, but our major releases will still fall on whole numbers such as 5.2 or 5.1.1 even. We just want to correctly identify each minor revision.
Also, you can check the current version, build number, and the release date at the bottom of any page on your site. The build number is an internal number we use to match up specific code bases in our test and live environments.
-Stephen
In order to sync up our releases a bit better with their relative scope and with user expectations of minor and major releases we are going to be changing our release numbering system. Since we release every 2-3 weeks and often release minor changes more often than that the 5.x.x system has too few numbers in it for our purposes and many people find 5.xx.xx where we would use 01-99 to be confusing.
Internally we actually use Piers Anthony book names as the release names, but very few people know that Unicorn Point comes after Robot Adept and I just pick a new book name anyway not necessarily in any order. Given that, we chose to just increment the minor version every release. This has worked out alright, but it has caused some version number inflation because of our quick release schedule. So, we are going to start using letters for minor versions.
The current release is 5.1f, the next minor release I am releasing today for some Death Knight changes is 5.1g. This will give us 23 minor revisions within a release. We'll work this new numbering into our announcements and refine as necessary, but our major releases will still fall on whole numbers such as 5.2 or 5.1.1 even. We just want to correctly identify each minor revision.
Also, you can check the current version, build number, and the release date at the bottom of any page on your site. The build number is an internal number we use to match up specific code bases in our test and live environments.
-Stephen