RE: RE: New SQL*Developer version numbers

From: Jeff Smith <jeff.d.smith_at_oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 06:06:46 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <c33c4394-fe2b-4436-8217-6c268be08518_at_default>



It’s arbitrary, right? The main thing is that you’re going to get more frequent releases. So hopefully it’s a win for customers.

 

Also we knew that changing the release numbering scheme would bump up our social media profile and get people talking.

 

Up next we have a beer theme in mind, where each version will be named after a style:

 

Amber

Barleywine

Berliner

Bitter

Blonde

 

 

 

From: Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman [mailto:dbakevlar_at_gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 8:30 AM
To: rajendra.pande_at_ubs.com
Cc: ORACLE-L <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>; Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com>; Tim Gorman <tim.evdbt_at_gmail.com> Subject: Re: RE: New SQL*Developer version numbers

 

Somebody please explain to me how the previous release numbering convention made more sense?  Was it that you liked to stump guests at parties with your ability to recall what release number came out in what year?  This isn't about copying Microsoft, this is about using logic.  Release year=release number, followed by release version.

 

Kellyn

 

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Friday, July 14, 2017, 6:19 AM -0600 from HYPERLINK "mailto:rajendra.pande_at_ubs.com"rajendra.pande_at_ubs.com <HYPERLINK "mailto:rajendra.pande_at_ubs.com"rajendra.pande_at_ubs.com>:

Gives the whole idea of release management a new meaning Now you will have to come up with a process to ensure that you don't release windows 2016 in 2017 :) Or have a process where the internal version numbers only get assigned after the last beta :) So anyone doing a beta doesn't know what version they are testing.. just in case the release bleeds into next year

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From: HYPERLINK "mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org"oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Mladen Gogala Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 9:38 PM
To: Tim Gorman
Cc: oracle-l
Subject: Re: New SQL*Developer version numbers

Hi Tim!
Year based releases? What a marvelously elegant idea! Release "Oracle SQL Server 2018" would avoid all the problems of the unlucky number 13. Hopefully, another vendor who also has year based release names, will not release SQL Server 2018. Maybe they should have an even-odd release system, just like parking in NYC? Regards

On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 16:31:19 -0600
Tim Gorman <HYPERLINK "mailto:tim.evdbt_at_gmail.com"tim.evdbt_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Perhaps Oracle is going to year-based releases?
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> Neatly sidesteps all the "what comes after Oracle12" nonsense.
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> On 7/13/17 16:20, Mladen Gogala wrote:
> > On July the 11th, there was an update to SQL*Developer and SQLcl. The previous version was 4.2. Now, I see this:
> >
> > SQLcl: Release 17.2.0 Production on Thu Jul 13 18:16:30 2017
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> > Copyright (c) 1982, 2017, Oracle. All rights reserved.
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> >
> > SQL>
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> > Version "17.2"? Really? How did that happen? The same applies to SQL*Developer. Functionality is still pretty much the same, I haven't encountered any problems yet.
> > Regards
> >
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