I think that's an excellent understanding and suggestion on #3.

Fwiw, the norm I've seen is to allow the requester and the dev to work that
out.

Thanks,

-D...


On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Nick Allen <[email protected]> wrote:

> I broke down what I am understanding of your suggestion into bullet
> points.  Please correct me if I am wrong.
>
> (1) Bump the rev immediately following a release
> (2) Update the current version in master to 0.4.0
> (3) Maintain and back port bug fixes to a 0.3.x branch
>
>
> I would agree with you on items (1) and (2); +1 on those.
>
> Item (3) is what drove my questions.  I feel this needs a little more
> discussion to outline what gets back ported, how it is back ported and when
> that might occur.  I am not concerned about the technicalities of
> maintaining multiple branches, more the process side of things.
>
> Maybe we could sit on (3) until there is a community member with an
> interest in back porting a fix? Right now, I don't know of any, but maybe
> I've missed a conversation.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 10:42 AM, David Lyle <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > So, the notion is- we're going to have a 0.4.0 release at some future
> > point. If, during that release cycle, we found critical bug fix type
> issues
> > that we wanted to release out of cycle, we could patch the 0.3.0 branch
> and
> > cut a release from there. You're correct that we'd have to commit them to
> > both branches. I don't know of a way to avoid that with that type of
> stuff,
> > so I think the best we can do is to minimize them.
> >
> > Alternatively, we can decide that the next release will be 0.3.1 and
> either
> > abandon the notion of semantic versioning [1] (i.e. put features and bug
> > fixes in a x.x.1 release) or only release bug fixes.
> >
> > I don't really have a strong preference excepting that I know for sure
> that
> > master will no longer be 0.3.0 once 0.3.0 is released, so we should bump
> > the rev immediately following the 0.3.0 release (if not sooner).
> >
> > -D...
> >
> > [1] http://semver.org/
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Nick Allen <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > What kind of PRs would qualify as 0.3.x fixes?  How would we decide
> that?
> > > For those we would then have to commit them against both the 0.3.x
> branch
> > > and master (0.4.0), right?
> > >
> > > Off the top of your head, can you think of a few recent PRs that would
> > > qualify as patches?  I'd just like to get a feel for how many of those
> > > might exist.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 6:58 PM, David Lyle <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Mike,
> > > >
> > > > I'd like to see us increment the version on master ASAP. Once 0.3.0
> is
> > > > released, master is no longer the 0.3.0 branch.
> > > >
> > > > I recommend that we run 0.3.x patches off the 0.3.0 release branch
> and
> > > > rename master to 0.4.0.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > -D...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Michael Miklavcic <
> > > > [email protected]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > 1 - What the next version should be.
> > > > > 2 - When we should increment the version
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 2:35 PM, [email protected] <
> [email protected]>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Sorry, but I don't exactly follow.  Are you looking to discuss
> what
> > > the
> > > > > > version number should be next time around (1.0 vs 0.4 vs 0.3.1?)
> or
> > > > what
> > > > > > tasks need to be accomplished before the next version of metron
> is
> > > > > > considered ready?  Thanks,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Jon
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016, 16:29 Michael Miklavcic <
> > > > > [email protected]
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > This is a thread to discuss what the next version of Metron
> > should
> > > be
> > > > > > > after Apache
> > > > > > > Metron 0.3.0-RC1 incubating is released, e.g. 0.3.1?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I'd like to up the rev asap, however one thing to consider is
> > that
> > > we
> > > > > > might
> > > > > > > change the version again at a later point in time prior to the
> > next
> > > > > > > release. This current release candidate being a case in point.
> On
> > > the
> > > > > > other
> > > > > > > hand, I am also currently working on simplifying the version
> > change
> > > > > > process
> > > > > > > so it might not be a big deal either way.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > > Mike Miklavcic
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > --
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Jon
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Sent from my mobile device
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Nick Allen <[email protected]>
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Nick Allen <[email protected]>
>

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