If the bits are identical ... no increment is necessary. If the bits differ ... increment it.
Kind regards, Peter Kriens On 8 feb 2011, at 19:11, Richard S. Hall wrote: > On 2/8/11 13:04, Richard S. Hall wrote: >> On 2/8/11 12:29, Peter Kriens wrote: >>> New version number for any reason makes a lot of sense. A bsn + version >>> must be as unique as a SHA-1 hashcode of the bundle. >> >> I think everyone agrees that a new version number should always be used for >> every release. The issue here is about a release that was never released >> because it was canceled for some reason during the voting period. > > After re-reading your message, I read "reason" as "release"... > > However, the tricky part is as I described...at Apache there is no release > without a proper vote, so the question is, do we need the version number to > reflect these failed attempts? > > Give the ongoing vote on this, it doesn't look like we have any clear > consensus. As a result, I'm happy to let the person doing the release > decide... > > -> richard > >> >> -> richard >> >>> Kind regards, >>> >>> Peter Kriens >>> >>> On 4 feb 2011, at 09:39, Carsten Ziegeler wrote: >>> >>>> Guillaume Nodet wrote >>>>> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 02:52, Richard S. Hall<he...@ungoverned.org> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> If enough people respond maybe we can reach some sort of consensus...or >>>>>> else >>>>>> we could call a vote on it. >>>>> Can other felix members speak here ? >>>>> >>>> I guess we don't find consensus by just discussing :) Some of us prefer >>>> it this way, others the other way. I prefer increasing the version >>>> number for each retry, it requires no additional work (except changing >>>> the version in jira) and makes it easier to track if people are using >>>> failed releases. Sure, comparing the hash of the binary artifact would >>>> solve this as well, but just looking at the version number is soo easy :) >>>> >>>> If - as a project - we agree to use the same version number for retries >>>> I'm ok with as well. >>>> >>>> But I agree we should do this consistently and just write it down >>>> somewhere. So let's call a vote and the majority wins :) >>>> >>>> Carsten >>>> -- >>>> Carsten Ziegeler >>>> cziege...@apache.org