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Spring Cloud Release Train - dependency management across a wide range of Spring Cloud projects.
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Consider moving from code names to other versioning system #168

Closed jkubrynski closed 4 years ago

jkubrynski commented 5 years ago

Currently, all Spring Cloud release trains are named in alphabetic order using London Tube Stations. It's not something that developers are used to. Even Android which uses alphabetically ordered names (Nougat, Oreo, Pie) is simultaneously using normal versions (7.0, 8.0, 9.0) to make it easier to remember. Tracking Spring Cloud releases is hard for someone not working with those versions every day (as people in Pivotal do).

I totally agree that release trains need different release pace, but there are better options as for example suggested here: https://twitter.com/bartekpiech/status/1113809870191497219

Calendar versioning (2018.3, 2019.1, 2019.2) is already used by JetBrains and it's much easier to remember.

Please rethink the approach to versioning releases to make it usable for regular developers.

spencergibb commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the thought. We needed something that was disconnected from individual project versions. We followed the precedent set by spring data. We're 5 years in. We don't plan on changing

jkubrynski commented 5 years ago

Just for your information. I've started the survey on Twitter about your approach to versioning: https://twitter.com/jkubrynski/status/1113804447002398721

80% of the people voting don't like it. Do you want to totally ignore it? Just because you do something for 5 years doesn't mean you're right.

spencergibb commented 5 years ago

We're following a Spring portfolio standard. You'd have to convince all of the spring projects that do this to change (reactor, data, stream and more).

jkubrynski commented 5 years ago

I don't have to do anything :) I'm just sharing my best knowledge with you. Something I know from the talks with many developers backed with a simple twitter pool to have numbers not just words. If you want to ignore the voice of the community - totally fine. I used to it :)

marcingrzejszczak commented 4 years ago

Fixed via https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-release/commit/5f989a60b64ab2b96a70d7a57ed53d800f8e5953