I'd highly recommend marking a tag on the repo for each tarball release, regardless of what the scheme ends up being. They're good markers for revisions where the devs might believe the code is in a working state. Super helpful for scanning changelog in bulk, bisecting releases to find regressions, etc.
Releases should be fully scripted anyway. I thank brad for throwing out 'shipit' that one lazy weekend a few years back. When I'm feeling productive I don't have to think about tags or tarballs or uploads or etc. just praying that the test suite passes still. -Dormando On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Brian Aker wrote: > Hi! > > On Feb 24, 2009, at 7:50 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: > > > > As a geek, I kind of like it. But, I fear that those that have not worked > > > on a source code repository and worked with revisions might be confused. > > > > Agreed, but these tarball releases are more for geeks anyway, right? ;) > > What we do for snapshots at the moment, may not be what we do long term... > > The reason I like it: > 1) No requirement to do a "tag". > 2) I can directly look at the notes and quickly know what was in someone's > release. > 3) Version numbers tell me almost nothing.... and dates? We get a lot of > commits on anyone single day. The release date might not even be related to > the build we use for that day. > > Cheers, > -Brian > > -- > _______________________________________________________ > Brian "Krow" Aker, brian at tangent.org > Seattle, Washington > http://krow.net/ <-- Me > http://tangent.org/ <-- Software > _______________________________________________________ > You can't grep a dead tree. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
