Comment on Archive Roadmap 2013

  1. notACoder (Guest) Wed 27 Mar 2013 04:28PM UTC

    I'm not a coder, nor do I play one on TV, so how do you go from Version 0.8 (past) to Version 0.9 (current version is 0.9.4.2) to Version 0.10 to Version 0.11 to Version 1.0?

    All those headings have the same heading level in you document, so I presume they are of equal level in the versioning system for the code.

    Also, am I correct in inferring that the Interlude is not necessarily after all those things listed in the Version 0.9 summary, but before some and after others?

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    1. AO3_Support (Official) Wed 27 Mar 2013 07:58PM UTC

      Hi notACoder,

      Thanks for commenting! Just to make sure I answer your question correctly: Are you interested in how we decide when one version of the software is "done" (e.g. making the switch from 0.9 to 0.10 for a version with a bunch of new features), or do you mean the purely technical aspect of how each new version gets assigned the number you can see in the footer? I can answer either, just don't want to info dump on you in case you were asking something else!

      As for the interlude, yes, this is planned for the 0.9 stretch of code deploys, exactly as you said.

      -mumble,
      Support & AD&T

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      1. notACoder (Guest) Wed 27 Mar 2013 10:38PM UTC

        0.8, 0.9, 0.10, 0.11, 1.0 seems like a really odd sequence if you look at like numerical values.

        I thought an explanation of how you go from what looks like .9 to a much lower number was in order.

        But is it really zero.nine to zero.ten to zero.eleven to one.zero?

        Because to a non-techie it looks like you started over after nine back at one again.

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        And given your other answer but not directed at you, rather at the authors of this post:

        I think that the summary and then interlude structure of the document might lead readers to infer that the summary items (the media type tag and filtering for example) will come before the interlude and therefore sooner in time than it really will.

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        1. ghost_lingering Thu 28 Mar 2013 01:32AM UTC

          minus prepares to hit a meteor out of the park

          I was confused about the 0.10 and 0.11 as well! I figured it out, but it took me a while.

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        2. AO3_Support (Official) Thu 28 Mar 2013 04:10PM UTC

          Oh yes, that's supposed to be point nine, point ten, and point eleven. It's more common, from what I've learnt from Wikipedia*, to go from 0.9 to 1.0 (which might have been less confusing), but we felt we weren't quite there yet, so we slipped in two more milestones before the big one.

          (* I didn't find this article to be super accessible to laypeople, myself included, but it has some nice software versioning trivia ...if you're into that kind of thing.)

          I'm actually one of the authors of this post (hi!), and I see what you're saying! However, we're hoping to keep this interlude relatively short and focus on taking stock and making plans, instead of fixing all the things at once, so it shouldn't affect the progress of our work to a noticeable degree.

          Thanks again for commenting, lemme know if you have any other questions.

          -mumble
          Support & AD&T

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