On 28 October 2011 17:43, Johannes Ring <joha...@simula.no> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Anders Logg <l...@simula.no> wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> There has been some concern regarding the lack of predictability in >> FEniCS releases. Yesterday, some of us at Simula met to discuss what >> can be done to improve the situation. The result is the following >> draft for a future development model: >> >> http://fenicsproject.org/contributing/development_model.html >> >> Please comment on the draft and suggest corrections. >> >> The new development model calls for a "release manager" to coordinate >> each stable release (currently 1.0). I can volunteer to serve as >> release manager this time. I'd be happy to step aside if someone else >> is motivated. >> >> I know some of you, in particular those from Simula who helped draft >> the proposal, have already said OK, but please respond anyway for the >> record. > > I also agree that it looks like a good model, however, as a Debian > maintainer, I'm a bit worried about the version numbering. For some > time ago we agreed (at least some of us) that at least Y should be > bumped on interface changes in the DOLFIN shared library. Does this > still fit in with this model? > > I also don't like version numbers like 1.1-pre1 because it isn't "less > than" for instance 1.1-beta1: > > $ dpkg --compare-versions 1.1-pre1 lt 1.1-beta1; echo $? > 1 > > Can we use something else than "pre"? How about "alpha"? >
Good point. Maybe we need to decide on which releases/snapshots we package? Do we want to bother packing snapshots from trunk? Garth > Johannes > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fenics > Post to : fenics@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fenics > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fenics Post to : fenics@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fenics More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
