On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 4:17 AM, dpwrussell <r...@dpwrussell.com> wrote: > I see that there is the concept of versioning for some time now in > Gitorious, but all the installation instructions I have seen involve a > checkout from mainline (If versioning is active I'd have expected a checkout > of a certain version branch).
I've noticed this also, and from a package management perspective this is not really ideal... I think the main reason people do this is that Gitorious development happens pretty quickly, so master is now quite different than what was tagged as v2.2.1. Various Gitorious guides out there on the internet recommend running master because that's what gets all the latest features and bugfixes. Gitorious AS doesn't really do backports to stable branches. You basically have to pick whatever tag "git describe" tells you (which is unfortunately seven months old now) and freeze there, or else just go with the tip of master. Speaking as a packager, even if we didn't have backports and multiple supported branches, it would be cool if Gitorious AS cut new versions a bit more often. If that were the case, who knows, we might get a step closer to ending the plethora of guides on the internet that say "clone mainline and run whatever commit you land on" :) > I've spent ages looking, but I can't find out > which version I'm running To find what version you're running, look in lib/gitorious.rb > or what the roadmap is for releases. Where is this > information? As for a release roadmap, I'm not sure there is an "official" one, but there's plenty of items on the "Wishlist" and "Todo" wiki pages. -Ken -- To post to this group, send email to gitorious@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to gitorious+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
