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> On May 5, 2017, at 12:56 PM, Neil Conway <neil.con...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Our current practice is that when we create a branch for version X, we > bump the version number in the "master" branch to X+1. For example, we > just created the 1.3.x branch, and bumped the version number in master > to "1.4.0". > > Proposal: we should instead use a version number like "1.4.0-devel" in > the master branch. When the 1.4.x release branch is created, the first > commit in that branch would switch to use the "1.4.0" version number. > Meanwhile, master would be bumped to use "1.5.0-devel". > > The main benefit is to make it easier to distinguish official Mesos > releases from snapshots that are taken from the master branch at some > point during development. Note that according to SemVer, "1.4.0-devel" > is considered to be "older" than "1.4.0", which is the behavior we'd > want. > > Neil
