I wrote up some stuff on this back in the 0.89 timeframe here: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/HBaseVersions
Could probably do with a refresh of the text, but should mostly still apply. -Todd On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org> wrote: > I propose to avoid -dev or -beta, and stick with the even/odd scheme we > used for 0.89. We also appended a date stamp instead of minor version, e.g. > 0.89.20100726. Documenting how this departure from our usual numbering > signifies a "developer preview", or whatever we'd like to call it, sounds > like a good idea. > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Jonathan Hsieh <j...@cloudera.com> wrote: > >> I think that branching scheme makes sense. >> >> We should probably define the intent of even/odd versioning and compat >> rules on the webpage (the how to release instructions and on the >> download links) if we are going to do it so we don't have to explain >> it over and over. If we do this ahead of time, everyone should have >> the same expectations knows what this means. >> >> Also, we could consider probably playing some games with adding -dev >> or -beta after an odd version number. I say this with some >> trepidation - over in Hadoop-land they there are some contentious >> discussions about version numbering and naming that I'd personally >> like to avoid. >> >> Jon. >> >> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote: >> > >> >> How do we want to run it? Branch 0.96 and then 0.95s are branched from >> >> 0.96? (As in the past, 0.95.0, 0.95.1, etc., would come with no >> guarantees >> >> other than it basically works and it is allowed that 0.95.1 may not be >> >> compatible with 0.95.0, etc.). >> >> >> > >> > >> > +1 >> > >> > -- >> > Best regards, >> > >> > - Andy >> > >> > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein >> > (via Tom White) >> >> >> >> -- >> // Jonathan Hsieh (shay) >> // Software Engineer, Cloudera >> // j...@cloudera.com >> > > > > -- > Best regards, > > - Andy > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein > (via Tom White) -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
