On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 14:38 -0500, Steve Huston wrote: > ... > But what's a dev "version"? The only time you can really have a > meaningful "version" is when it's tagged and set aside. Dev stuff is a > moving target. Any given number assigned to "dev" today is not the same > as tomorrow's. >
The meaningful version comment is true as far as full release version is concerned, but in that case it is a shorthand for a specific subversion commit. However it is certainly meaningful to use the first 2 numbers to indicate which line of development is being run. > What does it mean to schedule a fix for "dev"? On the whole all bug fixes should be fixed in dev releases. The only ones fixed in releases are ones that are fixed during the release process itself, or are fixed on the release branch. I would say though that distinguishing dev versions from release version is more important for us in bug triage to figure what code a bug reporter is running. It is true that svn revision would also do, but it's not as descriptive. Andrew --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation Project: http://qpid.apache.org Use/Interact: mailto:dev-subscr...@qpid.apache.org
