On 2013-09-11 17:03, Eduardo Lima (Etrunko) wrote:
> 2013/9/11 Bertrand Jacquin <be...@meleeweb.net>:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On 2013-09-11 00:36, Eduardo Lima (Etrunko) wrote:
>>> We now have tarballs up for testing in under the new pre-releases
>>> directory:
>>> 
>>> http://download.enlightenment.org/pre-releases/efl-1.7.9/
>>> http://download.enlightenment.org/pre-releases/enlightenment-0.17.5/
>> 
>> IMHO, it's bad to name tarball 'e_dbus-1.7.9.tar.bz2' (here for e_dbus
>> exemple). Think about google bot and other crawlers that will put in 
>> the
>> first result 'e_dbus-1.7.9.tar.bz2' corresponding to the pre-release
>> directory, and this even when release will happenning, people will not
>> see pre-releases subdirectory at first.
>> 
>> Also, it may lead to misunderstood from people that will already have 
>> a
>> file named e_dbus-1.7.9.tar.bz2 in their directory.
>> 
>> Naming them e_dbus-1.7.9_pre1.Tar.bz2 in preferable or anything else
>> that is not the final tarball name.
> 
> It is already enough work to update configure.ac, ChangeLogs and NEWS
> for all 17 packages we ship, and I for myself am not doing it all over
> again only to remove a 'pre' tag. The idea is to move the tarballs to
> the release directory and remove the pre-release one whenever the
> packages are tested and good to go.

This should not need any manual changes. You could for example add a 
v1.7.9_pre1 tag on a commit, and then run a 'make dist' that does all 
needed things for you. As almost all projects does.

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