If the bits are identical ... no increment is necessary. If the bits differ ...
increment it.
Kind regards,
Peter Kriens
On 8 feb 2011, at 19:11, Richard S. Hall wrote:
> On 2/8/11 13:04, Richard S. Hall wrote:
>> On 2/8/11 12:29, Peter Kriens wrote:
>>> New version number for any reason makes a lot of sense. A bsn + version
>>> must be as unique as a SHA-1 hashcode of the bundle.
>>
>> I think everyone agrees that a new version number should always be used for
>> every release. The issue here is about a release that was never released
>> because it was canceled for some reason during the voting period.
>
> After re-reading your message, I read "reason" as "release"...
>
> However, the tricky part is as I described...at Apache there is no release
> without a proper vote, so the question is, do we need the version number to
> reflect these failed attempts?
>
> Give the ongoing vote on this, it doesn't look like we have any clear
> consensus. As a result, I'm happy to let the person doing the release
> decide...
>
> -> richard
>
>>
>> -> richard
>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Peter Kriens
>>>
>>> On 4 feb 2011, at 09:39, Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
>>>
>>>> Guillaume Nodet wrote
>>>>> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 02:52, Richard S. Hall<[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> If enough people respond maybe we can reach some sort of consensus...or
>>>>>> else
>>>>>> we could call a vote on it.
>>>>> Can other felix members speak here ?
>>>>>
>>>> I guess we don't find consensus by just discussing :) Some of us prefer
>>>> it this way, others the other way. I prefer increasing the version
>>>> number for each retry, it requires no additional work (except changing
>>>> the version in jira) and makes it easier to track if people are using
>>>> failed releases. Sure, comparing the hash of the binary artifact would
>>>> solve this as well, but just looking at the version number is soo easy :)
>>>>
>>>> If - as a project - we agree to use the same version number for retries
>>>> I'm ok with as well.
>>>>
>>>> But I agree we should do this consistently and just write it down
>>>> somewhere. So let's call a vote and the majority wins :)
>>>>
>>>> Carsten
>>>> --
>>>> Carsten Ziegeler
>>>> [email protected]
