Raphael Wegmueller wrote: > the usage of the 3rd version digit as a sort of rc counter sounds > rather confusing to me, too... > how about always suffixing release candidates that are voted on with > -rcN, and after acceptance releasing the same binaries again, this > time without suffixes? their md5 checksums would be identical, so > there should be no confusion as to which rc it is, and the release > would have the proper version. > This is the way how other projects at Apache perform the release process (preparing everything as version x.y(.z)-rcN, building the dist with this version information and also creating this tag/branch in svn). If the vote is successful, the suffix is just removed.
Carsten -- Carsten Ziegeler - Chief Architect http://www.s-und-n.de http://www.osoco.org/weblogs/rael/
