[Planetlab-devel] diagnosing a sneak bug in 5.0 & impact on 4.2

[Marc E. Fiuczynski]

Hi Thierry,

On May 30, 2008, at 5:36 AM, Thierry Parmentelat wrote:
> From what you're saying, there aren't many differences between your  
> perception of 4.3 and what is in 5.0;
> The reason why I'm calling this working version 5.0 has objective  
> grounds, related to the changes in the DB schema; moving to this  
> new version is a bit beyond a simple migration script; so keeping  
> the planetlab4 db intact and using it to populate planetlab5 sounds  
> like the right thing to do.


I do not want to spend much time arguing about whether we arrive at a  
new major release or not.  But what you've mentioned above does not  
appear to warrant calling for a major release number change.  We  
could just as easily call the db file planetlab4.3 or planetlab4_3.

To be frank (or marc :), I believe the internal plan was to arrive at  
a new major release # when the externally visible interfaces changed  
significantly, not just incrementally.  Something on the order of the  
geni_wrappers etc.

So lets discuss what will go into the "next release" and later decide  
whether this warrants calling it 5.0 or something else.

Marc