On 06/22/2012 02:24 AM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Cleber Rosa <cr...@redhat.com> wrote: >> On 06/21/2012 03:18 PM, Ademar de Souza Reis Jr. wrote: >>> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 02:12:14PM -0300, Cleber Rosa wrote: >>>>> - We're at major version 0 >>>>> - The "stable" (for lack of a better term) is 14 >>>>> - The minor (bugfix) is 1 > Well, I might say this is a fairly accurate interpretation of the > release numbers. > >>>> ^ My original question is in much better context here: is a minor >>>> release supposed to be bugfix only? AFAIK, this has not been the >>>> case so far. >>> My understanding is that this is exactly what Fedora guys want >>> and for sure that's what I'm proposing here. >> I understand your understanding is correct ;) >> >> That's why I pointed out that this has not been the case so far, and we >> need to change it. > Well, 0.14.1 is all about bugfixing, since it didn't depart much from > 0.14.0. We could spend time talking about technicalities, but the > purpose of minor releases is all about bugfixing, long before git came > into the place. So I'm confused as why you think it hasn't been the > case so far. Since I started releasing autotest (we picked up an > arbitrary 0.9.0 at the time) A.B.C, where increments in C are > bugfixes, *mainly*. If some new features came in, it was entirely my > sloppiness.
Yeah, I had that feeling. But it's good to know that I was wrong and the release process is already in line with our plans. > > So, no changes whatsoever are needed. It's just that before git, I > kept svn branches and done cherry picking of commits. With the change > to git, I've experimented with tags in master, but it clearly it's not > good enough for the purposes of keep the interfaces stable. > > Hence this thread was started. I imagine we can do the same with git, > only a lot easier and reliably. > _______________________________________________ Autotest mailing list Autotest@test.kernel.org http://test.kernel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/autotest
