[bogofilter-announce] new stable version - bogofilter 0.11.1.3

[David Relson]

At 08:57 AM 3/17/03, Carl T. Miller wrote:

>David, do you know when they're going to come up with a 1.0 version?
>One advantage of having a 1.0 version is that declares the basic
>feature set is determined, and, while minor features may be added, the
>current syntax will be supported until a new version comes out.
>
>If the team has decided on basic functionality, please forward my
>suggestion.
>
>Thanks!
>
>c

Carl,

Bogofilter currently has a very capable basic feature set.  Of course there 
are additional features that will be added over time, but the core 
functionality is there _now_.

Given that we _do_ have a solid feature set, our goal for version 1.0 is 
that it be a solid, stable release.  We intend to have those qualities at 
the time we release 1.0.  We don't plan to release 1.0, fix it a few days 
later, re-release, re-fix, etc.  When 1.0 is released it will be solid and 
stable, as best we can, and people won't have to wait for 1.1 or 1.2 for 
"solid and stable".

That being said, 0.10 was released a month ago and 0.11 was released 2 
weeks ago.  A variety of additions, modifications, and bug fixes bumped the 
version number to 0.11.1.3 a week ago.  With no needed changes over the 
course of the week, 0.11.1.3 was promoted from "current" to "stable".  Over 
the course of the next few weeks, any problems that need fixing will bump 
the version to 0.11.1.4, .5, etc.  If there significant new additions are 
coded, then we'll have a version 0.12.  If there are no problems needing 
fixing and no new additions added, then 0.11.1.3 will be relabeled and 
released as 1.0.

Of course, there are many ideas for improvements and additional 
capabilities.  The top two items in those categories are support for 
multiple wordlists and more flexible handling of tokens in html tags and 
comments.  When these are implemented they may be deemed important enough 
to be 0.12 or 0.13.  Alternatively they may remain in the 
"development/test" category until 1.0 is released (at which time they can 
become 1.1 and 1.2).

Hope this explains our current thoughts/ideas.  Any comments you have on 
the plan are appreciated.

David

P.S. I've CC'd this response to the bogofilter list.  I expect others will 
be interested, too.