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Re: A thought on urgency



On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:15:45PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> Ver=1.0   Urgency=0
> Ver=1.1   Urgency=100
> Ver=1.2   Urgency=200
> Ver=1.3   Urgency=300
> Ver=1.4   Urgency=300
> 
> A user not at 1.3,1.4 will be able to detect that there is a strong reason
> to upgrade from [1.0,1.1,1.2] but that the change from 1.3 to 1.4 is
> non-urgent. 
> 
> What do you all think?

It's nice, but it doesn't allow (and nor does the current system) for the
case where 1.3 had a major security hole, so 1.4 is an urgent upgrade from
1.3, but upgrading from 1.2 to 1.4 doesn't give you any benefit.



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