Per offline discussion with mpark, he suggested a preference for "-dev" rather than "-devel", which sounds fine to me.
Based on the lack of objections, I'll plan on making this change shortly: (1) changing the version number in master to "1.4.0-dev", and (2) updating the release process documentation accordingly. If you have any concerns, please let me know. Neil On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 4:29 PM, Neil Conway <neil.con...@gmail.com> wrote: > In my experience, this is reasonably common. For example, Postgres > uses version numbers like "9.5devel" to identify the software in the > development period before the next release process starts. > > Neil > > On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Vinod Kone <vinodk...@apache.org> wrote: >> Is this a common practice that autotools based projects follow? >> >> For publish snapshot JARs to maven for example, we just add "-SNAPSHOT" to >> the version tag (and hence to the JAR name) before publishing it to maven; >> without a need to change the version in source control. >> >> On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Zhitao Li <zhitaoli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> +1 >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> > On May 5, 2017, at 12:56 PM, Neil Conway <neil.con...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > Our current practice is that when we create a branch for version X, we >>> > bump the version number in the "master" branch to X+1. For example, we >>> > just created the 1.3.x branch, and bumped the version number in master >>> > to "1.4.0". >>> > >>> > Proposal: we should instead use a version number like "1.4.0-devel" in >>> > the master branch. When the 1.4.x release branch is created, the first >>> > commit in that branch would switch to use the "1.4.0" version number. >>> > Meanwhile, master would be bumped to use "1.5.0-devel". >>> > >>> > The main benefit is to make it easier to distinguish official Mesos >>> > releases from snapshots that are taken from the master branch at some >>> > point during development. Note that according to SemVer, "1.4.0-devel" >>> > is considered to be "older" than "1.4.0", which is the behavior we'd >>> > want. >>> > >>> > Neil >>>
