Hello Michael Thanks for the response.
Sure, I'm working on improving the release process for Edge; was interested to know how chromium is able to do it so efficiently. Then I came across this peculiar tagging model for V8 and got curious to know the reasoning behind it :D Thanks Suraj On Wednesday, July 28, 2021 at 2:01:34 AM UTC-7 Michael Hablich wrote: > Hi Suraj, > > we are not regularly updating the (minor) version number on main, as it > would require to either: > > - Update the version number with each commit => Point of failure for > CL authors and potential for race conditions > - Have a bot running that updates the version number in a separate CL > like we do on the branches with the help of our tag bot => That would spam > our main with logistic CLs. > > Happy to give more insight on how this works, may I ask why this topic is > interesting to you? > > Cheers, > Michael > > On Wednesday, July 28, 2021 at 2:00:07 AM UTC+2 [email protected] > wrote: > >> Hey everyone, >> >> I am trying to understand the release process and versioning of V8 and >> had a question. >> >> I came across Release Process <https://v8.dev/docs/release-process> & V8’s >> version numbering scheme >> <https://v8.dev/docs/version-numbers#which-v8-version-should-i-use%3F> >> docs, that explains how it is tightly connected to Chrome’s. >> >> Although, I did notice that for the v8 repo, automated version bumps >> changing the BUILD_NUMBER are performed on a branch off main (Link to CL >> <https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/v8/v8/+/3056359>) (which >> will later become the revision in Chromium.src DEPS); whereas Chromium.src >> performs it on main (Link to CL >> <https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/3052678>). >> >> I was curious to know, if there’s a reason why we follow this model, >> contrary to performing these version bumps on main? >> >> Thanks >> >> Suraj >> > -- -- v8-dev mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/v8-dev/76d73ed7-c1c9-4970-9208-afc7ae5ef64en%40googlegroups.com.
