[ofiwg] post OFI 1.0

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 05:35:48PM +0000, Hefty, Sean wrote:
> > > * Should releases be 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, etc. or 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3?
> > 
> > One random point: this might be useful reading when considering versioning
> > schemes:
> > 
> >     http://semver.org/
> 
> That site would suggest that most libfabric releases over the next
> couple of years will be of the form 1.y.

The best time to crank the major version is at the beginning, there
are few users, no proprietary binary stuff, no distros to contend
with. Better to take the hit then live with bodges forever..

Especially if you are not 100% confident in the API at this point ...

IMHO, freezing the binary ABI too early in a project is very
toxic.

Jason