[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

[Kathy Lussier]

Hi Alexey,
>> I think a lot of the "Is it going to be a huge pain to upgrade? Or is it
>> just a minor upgrade?" angst would be diminished if we (devs and release
>> managers) did a better job of communicating expectations about each
>> upcoming release. We pledged to do this at EGConf 2012 and had a good
>> start, but need to stay vigilant on this front - and pitch in on the
>> documentation (release notes & upgrade notes).
> I agree and would like to offer my help with this, however, not sure exactly how at this point.
Here are some thoughts on pitching in on the release notes front. When 
I'm in Launchpad, I have started using a needsreleasenote tag for 
pullrequests for release-note-worthy new features that don't already 
have release notes. The development community has adopted a practice of 
writing the release notes when they submit code for new features, but 
this doesn't happen in all cases, meaning that we don't have a 
comprehensive set of release notes at beta time. I haven't gotten very 
far in adding this tag to new feature submissions, and I'm sure there 
are probably several Launchpad submissions that should get this tag. I'm 
hoping it will result in more comprehensive release notes at beta time.

Another way to help is to go through the Change Logs to verify that 
release-worthy new features are reflected in the Release Notes and add 
any that aren't there. I have done this a couple of times, and, although 
it is a little tedious, it is a good way to catch new features that may 
be missing from the release notes.

Kathy