bug#13578: [IMPORTANT] A new versioning scheme for automake releases, and a new branching scheme for the Git repository

2013-01-31 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 31/01/2013 13:47, Stefano Lattarini wrote: But there is already such a discussion going on; see: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13578 Or did you mean something else? I would expect a more ... visible discussion. Honestly bugs are all nice and shiny but I don't expect

bug#13578: [IMPORTANT] A new versioning scheme for automake releases, and a new branching scheme for the Git repository

2013-01-31 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 28/01/2013 20:48, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Feedback, opinions, objections? First of all, I would like to hope that this is not going to be rushed through — it's an important and big change and I think having discussion about it with others might be a better idea. One thing that worries me at

bug#13578: [IMPORTANT] A new versioning scheme for automake releases, and a new branching scheme for the Git repository

2013-01-31 Thread Jack Kelly
Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu writes: On 31/01/2013 20:58, Jack Kelly wrote: IMHO, that seems like a great way to cause trouble for unsuspecting users. (Anyone remember KDE4.0?) Can you expand on why you think it's a good plan? Because unlike KDE, automake can put a big fat