In addition to the previous mail (below), I would like to make one other definition of version numbers.
XX.YY.ZZ XX = Major version (Large upgrades, API version changes) YY = Minor version (Incremented with small milestons for the major version increment) ZZ = Patch version (Bugs, Patch releases have only this incremented) So after 1.3.4, we will be using this. Jon On 9/23/06, Jon Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 9/23/06, Erik Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The "old linux kernel versioning" scheme: > - Make the version in svn 1.3.3 > - Release some (hopefully not that many) release candidates. > - When we are ready for a release, bump the version to 1.3.4, tag it in svn, > make the tarball and then update the version in trunk to 1.3.5. > - Develop new features/fix old bugs. > - Back to "Release some RCs" > > The "it's version A until B is ready" scheme: > - Make the version in svn 1.3.2 > - Release some more RCs > - When the release is ready, bump the version to 1.3.3, tag it in svn and make > the tarball (for this release this would have to be 1.3.4 since 1.3.4-rc1 is > already out, but in theory it would be 1.3.3). > - Develop some more. > - Release some RCs > - Make the 1.3.4 release, and so on > > Currently I guess we use some kind of combination where the second scheme is > used, but at each version bump a version is skipped. Historically, I was doing the old linux kernel scheme, but I didn't know the linux kernel used to do it ;) But out of pure laziness (and seeing no benefit of having odd-numbered devel versions), I slipped into the latter scheme. So, from 1.3.4 we will be using the second scheme and final releases can now be odd-numbered. Jon -- ________________________________________________________ Jon Keating ICQ: 16325723 [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.licq.org GPG: 2290A71F http://www.thejon.org HOME: Minamiashigara, Japan
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