Immediate, Official Release of The Historiotheque Semantic Version 4.0.1.
Where I Launch The First Major Version of The Cultural Software Known as The Historiotheque Since Its Semantic Version 3.0.1., Starting in December, 2016
STATUS REPORT ON THE HISTORIOTHEQUE AS CULTURAL SOFTWARE / ANTI-OPERATING SYSTEM => MAY 4TH, 2024
- First of all, about Semantic Versioning and how the version numbers work, from the Semantic Versioning 2.2.0. website:
Summary
Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:
1. MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes
2. MINOR version when you add functionality in a backward compatible manner
3. PATCH version when you make backward compatible bug fixes
Additional labels for pre-release and build metadata are available as extensions to the MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format.
- Therefore, this is an Official Release of a new MAJOR version of The Historiotheque, INCOMPATIBLE with the previous MAJOR version;
- The previous MAJOR version Official Release, Semantic Version 3.0.1., was made on December 29th, 2016, Official Release 3.0.1.;
- The latest PATCH version was released 3 days ago, and is Semantic Version 3.0.5. (SEE: The Preliminary Launching of The Historiotheque Semantic Version 3.0.5. (After a Fallow Period));
- I made the “jockey” error of never really releasing any MINOR versions, only PATCH versions; I will correct this moving forward;
WHY SEMANTIC VERSION 3.0.5. WAS SHUT DOWN AFTER ONLY 3 DAYS OF OPERATION, AND WHAT SEMANTIC VERSION 4.0.1. BRINGS TO THE TABLE
- The ultimate goal of The Historiotheque Anti-Operating System (as fully operational “Cultural Software”), is to run a mature, SUSTAINABLE, interdisciplinary art-research practice, called THE ART OPERATION;
- The new“Production-Year” for The Art Operation usually starts every Autumn, where for the last decade or so, I have produced an Official Declaration of Production-Year;
- For the historical record and for documentation purposes and the always-growing archive of my works to date, here are my previous Official Declarations for the last 9 years that I have been making Official Declarations, yearly (NOTE: The latest Official Declaration for Production-Year 2025–2026 was actually release ONE YEAR IN ADVANCE; the others were all released one year PRIOR to the Production-Year which the Declaration covers, and version 2024–2025 was released ahead of schedule, in March, 2023, instead of the usual Autumn release; I will explain, briefly, in a second, how the year numbers work):
Production-Year 2016–2017
Official Declaration of The Production-Year 2017–2018
Official Declaration of The Production-Year 2018–2019
Official Declaration of Production-Year 2019–2020
Official Declaration of Production-Year 2020–2021
Official Declaration of Production-Year 2021–2022
Official Declaration of Production-Year 2022–2023
Official Declaration of Production-Year 2023–2024
Official Declaration of Production-Year 2024–2025
Official Declaration of Production-Year 2025–2026
- NOTE ON OFFICIAL DECLARATIONS: As stated elsewhere many times before, every year, I publish an “Official Declaration of Production-Year”, serving to give “forward-looking statements” with regard to my interdisciplinary art-research practice, for the coming “Production-Year”;
- All I want to note here, before moving onto the next section, is that each Production-Year actually covers ONE YEAR IN ADVANCE;
- So early last year, anno domini 2023, in March precisely and earlier than usual for the first year in 9 years of producing Official Declarations, I produced the Official Declaration for Production-Year 2024–2025;
- So, to make things clear, IN YEAR X, I ALWAYS PRODUCE A DECLARATION FOR YEARS X+1 AND X+2, i.e. the Declaration for 2024–2025 was produced in Year 2023;
- Why is this so? It’s simple: I operate my Art Operation as a kind of “Design House”, where I release the “New Collection” one year in advance; since the Production-Year starts in the Autumn of every year (usually!), the Declaration made in the Autumn of 2023 covers ONE FULL YEAR IN ADVANCE, so the year starting in Autumn 2024 UNTIL AUTUMN 2025 (though in 2023 it was made much earlier, in March, as stated above);
- So in essence it actually appears like I am covering TWO YEARS IN ADVANCE, but it’s technically only ONE “PRODUCTION-YEAR” IN ADVANCE;
- And why do I choose to produce “forward-looking statements” with regard to my interdisciplinary art-research practice? That’s simple. I want to make my practice PREDICTABLE, as much as is feasible, i.e. I want “potential future stakeholders” to be able to more or less KNOW or PREDICT exactly WHAT I will be focused on my my art-research practice, FOR THE COMING FUTURE (so they can have a better idea of what I’m all about, before investing in me and my practice);
- IMPORTANT NOTE: I have NEVER NOT lived up to my promises, in 9 years of producing these Official Declarations, so my practice IS very DEPENDABLE, is not entirely PREDICTABLE (because accidents happen!);
- (SEE: On the subject of how this complex calendrical system operates, called “THE PAINTER’S ALMANACH” which governs the PRODUCTION-YEAR and serves as its underlying CONCEPT, see the beginning section of the Official Declaration of Production-Year 2025–2026);
WHAT TO EXPECT IN THE HISTORIOTHEQUE SEMANTIC VERSION 4.0.1
- This Official Release is a new MAJOR version of “The AntiOS of The Art Operation@The Historiotheque”;
- This MAJOR version is an important update which is INCOMPATIBLE, as I said, with the previous version; I corrected countless TINY AND LARGE MISTAKES in how I ran my Art Operation, which led me to suffer from bouts of severe sleep disturbance and other things, like an aggravation of an underlying, though mild, mood disorder, etc., that sort of thing, lots of unnecessary suffering and the terrifying risk of losing operational/business continuity in my Practice, which HAS NEVER HAPPENED in 30 years;
- Semantic Version 3.0.1. was only launched 3 days ago after a “fallow period”, a period of “wintering” where I was in HIATUS or ON SABBATICAL, if you will, following the last Official Release/Semantic Version of The AntiOS;
- It had to be shut down after 3 days, though, because it contained important “modes of failure” in the form of major bugs/errors;
- I quickly patched these up, corrected them, and now I’m running a FULLY SUSTAINABLE INTERDISCIPLINARY ART-RESEARCH PRACTICE, possibly for the first time, in real and official terms, in 30 years, i.e. all the previous ones ended up being ABJECT FAILURES, though operational/business DISCONTINUITY was avoided at all times;
- Soon, I will give you a detailed analysis of what I actually produced in the last few weeks of production leading up to the “Preliminary Launch” of Semantic Version 3.0.1., as well as what I plan to work on in the coming months, for the rest of the Production-Year, and the next;
- I will also report on all of the “Documentation” that I’ve published online on my practice in recent years, carefully organized to cover various important facets of the “Creative Work-System known as ALX”, providing links/references to the actual online publications/resources, so you can read and refer to them in the future; I’ve not collected all of these in a single place yet, except for my GitHub profile and “Index” repository that I created, and my various Medium publications, which I find difficult to navigate truly for someone interested in reading about my practice;
- (Stay tuned for more to come…)
Sincerely,
Chief Art Operator
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