On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Chris Douglas <cdoug...@apache.org> wrote:
> I agree with Konst. The virtues of branching (instead of releasing > from trunk) and using the version suffix for the 3.x releases are lost > on me. Both introduce opportunities for error, in commits, in > consistent JIRA tagging, in packaging... > > I'm certainly open to alternate proposals for versioning and fix versions, but to reiterate, I like this versioning since it imitates other enterprise software. RHEL has versions like 6.2 Beta 2 and 7.0 Beta, so versions like 3.0.0-alpha1 will be immediately familiar to end users. Conversely, I've met people who were confused by the 2.0/2.1/2.2 progression. As far as I know, we were unique in using this style of versioning. I also think what we're doing now *is* considered releasing from trunk. Maybe I'm missing something, but we can't literally release from trunk without a release branch (e.g. branch-3.0.0-alpha1) unless we hold commits until the release or change fix versions afterwards. Best, Andrew
