1.16 Release

[Robert Collins]

On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 12:23 +1000, Jonathan Lange wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Robert
> Collins<robert.collins at canonical.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 12:07 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> So the bug should probably be called 'non-development format'; stable
> >> is perhaps something you only know after the fact.
> >>
> >> Are there any more changes needed for it to go into wider testing?  My
> >> impression is that more code changes are desirable but we don't think
> >> we need more format changes.
> >
> > I don't have any changes queued for 2.0 for the disk format. I do
> > however have code changes where I want to guarantee that only code with
> > those changes can read the format.
> >
> 
> Which means that bumping the format name to '2a' is...
>   (a) fine
>   (b) tolerable
>   (c) a huge mistake

(d) none of the above.

Its noise IMO, because we are likely if not definitely going to do a
bump when we make the format be advertised as stable, to ensure that
only good code is reading and writing to it.

-Rob
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