On 05/04/2015 05:09 PM, Sage Weil wrote:
> The first Ceph release back in Jan of 2008 was 0.1. That made sense at
> the time. We haven't revised the versioning scheme since then, however,
> and are now at 0.94.1 (first Hammer point release). To avoid reaching
> 0.99 (and 0.100 or 1.00?) we have a new strategy. This was discussed a
> bit on ceph-devel and in #ceph-devel and there doesn't appear to be any
> scheme that everyone likes.
>
> So, we're going to go with something that only a few people dislike:
>
> x.0.z - development releases (for early testers and the brave at heart)
> x.1.z - release candidates (for test clusters, brave users)
> x.2.z - stable/bugfix releases (for users)
>
> x will start at 9 for Infernalis ("I" is the 9th letter), making our first
> development release of the 9th release cycle 9.0.0. Subsequent
> development releases will be 9.0.1, 9.0.2, etc.
>
> In a couple months we'll have a 9.1.0 (and maybe 9.1.1) release candidate.
>
> A few weeks after that we'll have the Infernalis release 9.2.0, followed
> by stable bug fix updates 9.2.1, 9.2.2, etc., and then begin work on the
> Jewel (10.y.z) release.
>
> We'll see how this works out. We can adjust this in the future to any
> other 9.y.z scheme (e.g., 9.1, 9.2 etc dev releases and 9.8.z stable
> releases); the main commitment here is to the 9 part, indicating
> Infernalis is the 9th major release cycle.
Looks sane!
I'm guessing once 9.1.0 is frozen the dev cycles will move on to 10.0.1?
-Joao
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