[Libusbx-devel] Keeping the 1.0.9rc3 tag

[Xiaofan Chen]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Pete Batard <pete at akeo.ie> wrote:
> On 2012.03.24 23:29, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
>> Wiki and libusbx.org are fine.
>
> Not really. Please have a look at the following:
> http://wiki.libusbx.org/index.php/Main_Page
> http://www.libusbx.org/

What I mean is that setting up Wiki and libusbx.org are good
to have.


> As you are undoubtedly aware, not all developers we support seem to be
> able to tell us what library they are using or where exactly they got it
> from, so making it easy for them to be able to tell us should help, and
> will avoid us pondering "What £$%^&*(&% version of libusb(x?) is that
> person using?!?".
> IMO, we shouldn't go public before we have sorted a better versioning
> than what libusb has.

My libusb.org ticket #53 was shot down by Peter. How do
you like it? libusb_get_version(). It is quite simple to implement.
http://libusb.6.n5.nabble.com/libusb-get-version-API-extension-td2846266.html

>> One relatively simple thing to do with 1.0.10 is to bring HID
>> back to the Windows backend and call it 1.0.10 along with
>> further bug fix for Mac OS X and Linux.
>
> I'd plan that for 1.0.11, which would be the first release with major
> features added (or re-added).

No problem.

>> All in all, I am okay with not to officialize things before the
>> 1.0.10 release. But currently my idea of 1.0.10 release is
>> quite simple
>
> Same here, even more so as I don't plan HID before 1.0.11.
>
> If we have 1.0.9 around April 1st, then I'd see 1.0.10 about 2 weeks
> after that, counting time to set versioning up, wiki, bug tracking and
> other stuff that I'd rather have operational before an official
> announcement.

Okay, no problem.

>
> When I have a chance, I'd also like to set a wiki page with the current
> plan for releases, and what we think should go in each of them, so that
> we all can be on the same page and get an estimate of the task ahead.

Yes that is good to have.

-- 
Xiaofan