On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:37 AM, Ken Dreyer <ktdre...@ktdreyer.com> wrote:
> 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" :) > Sorry, we've been lazy :-( The next scheduled minor version will introduce LDAP-backed authorization, and should be out within a couple of week. > 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 use the included rake task (`[bundle exec] rake versioning:changelog`), it will list all known versions and highlight which of them you're currently using. > > > 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. > My colleague Thomas just (re-)mentioned that we should do a roadmap this morning, it's something we really need. Cheers, - Marius -- To post to this group, send email to gitorious@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to gitorious+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
