1. Milestone Scheme (Eclipse) to further explain that one, those are just the public versions that people consume...under the hood all of the bundles follow the osgi versioning convention of major.minor.bugfix.qualifier so it looks like 7.2.2.v20101205 or some variation there of.
if you guys are targeting osgi at any point then I would recommend you just stick with that scheme, similar to how we do versioning in jetty which works pretty well. Since you have eclipse plugins you ought to build those with maven + tycho and have a similar and sane versioning system. building with maven the -SNAPSHOT is turned into the qualifier so we just go with 7.3.0-SNAPSHOT and so on til a release and then we go with v'year'month'day...we use the v so that it sorts correct with things like 7.3.0.RC0, etc.. cheers, jesse -- jesse mcconnell jesse.mcconn...@gmail.com On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:51, Alex Karasulu <akaras...@apache.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Alex Karasulu <akaras...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> Let's start off with basics by discussing what our contracts are WRT >> API's, and releases with our users. We can throw out the past focusing on >> the future to save time since 2.0 will effectively be a new era. >> This 2.0 release I'm gathering is the first stable, serious, enterprise >> ready major release of ApacheDS. 1.0 was kind of a toy considering all it's >> faults and shortcomings so the two situations are not completely the same. >> We have to select a release scheme. Based on the scheme we select, we have >> to adhere to the rules of that scheme. This is like picking what our >> contract with users of the server will be for release compatibility. >> So when considering compatibility we have to consider several things >> besides just APIs and SPIs: >> o Database Format >> o Schema >> o Replication Mechanism >> o Configuration >> o API Compatibility >> o Plugins - We have pseudo plugins like Partitions, Interceptors and >> Handlers that users can alter which involve SPIs. >> So based the scheme we select we have to define policies for these >> interfaces. I am calling anything that is exposed to the users as interfaces >> like DB format for example. We have the following choices for schemes: >> 1. Milestone Scheme (Eclipse) >> 2. Traditional major.minor.micro Scheme >> 3. maj.min.mic with Odd Numbered Versions for Development Releases (Old >> Linux Kernel) >> 4. Modern Linux Versioning Scheme >> Se let's start off talking about which scheme we like best and why along >> with pros and cons taking into account realistically how we work. > > There are many more schemes out there to choose from. Feel free to add to > this list below. > > -- > Alex Karasulu > My Blog :: http://www.jroller.com/akarasulu/ > Apache Directory Server :: http://directory.apache.org > Apache MINA :: http://mina.apache.org > To set up a meeting with me: http://tungle.me/AlexKarasulu >
