Ladies’ Names? - Versioning Stage Names

Have you noticed that Packfire’s files are currently marked with the version 1.0-sofia in the PHPDoc @since tag? Ever wondered what sofia means?

Well we have replaced the traditional versioning stage names to ladies’ names with different one indicating the different status of the file version:

  • sofia - early development
  • elenor - alpha development and testing
  • rinoa - beta testing (female protagonist from FF8)
  • faith - issue fixing (have faith in your code fixing!)
  • belle - stable release
  • helena - deprecated (song of the same name by My Chemical Romance)

With that, 1.0-sofia means that the PHP framework is in 1.0 Early Development phase.