When branching out for a full release with feature changes, y in x.y.z will be bumped. When only bugfixes happen in that series later, z is bumped.
Pre is just lightweight snapshots, but having the option of packages for collaborators is good, so if using alpha is better then I am all for that. Martin Den 28. okt. 2011 18.51 skrev "Johannes Ring" <joha...@simula.no> følgende: > 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"? > > 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 >
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