Hi Henrik, We ve stopped receiving patches so that we can cut the RC tar ball.
Cheers, -Vijay On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Henrik Ingo <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks to everyone for feedback on this important topic. I have now > proposed for merging the aptly named branch > > lp:~hingo/drizzle/drizzle-the-version-is-7.1-not-a-date-and-certainly-not-7 > > > https://code.launchpad.net/~hingo/drizzle/drizzle-the-version-is-7.1-not-a-date-and-certainly-not-7/+merge/90809<https://code.launchpad.net/%7Ehingo/drizzle/drizzle-the-version-is-7.1-not-a-date-and-certainly-not-7/+merge/90809> > > I will now defer to the merge-gods to pass judgement on what I've done. > > > > Seeing that my work on make rpm and make deb was approved yesterday, > this completes the release and packaging related work I've seen as > needed for 7.1. (However, the CI and publishing of debs and rpms still > remains. Also there are a few other bugs I'd like to see fixed before > RC.) > > henrik > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Henrik Ingo <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi all > > > > This seems like a good time to raise the question of what is the > > current and next drizzle version. I came across these questions when > > working on building rpms for trunk. > > > > Currently we release the source tarball drizzle7-2011.11.29.tar.gz > > which leads to rpms and debs called eg. > > drizzle7-2011.11.29.2481-2.el6.x86_64.rpm. drizzle7-2011.11.29.tar.gz > > is our latest beta version and drizzle7-2011.03.13.tar.gz is our > > latest stable version. > > > > Common practice, and semantics hardwired into rpmbuild and > > dpkg-buildpackage assume that: > > - drizzle7 is the name of our software > > - 2011.11.29 is the version > > > > The question is, what will the next version be called? drizzle7.1-...? > > That will be very confusing to rpm and deb systems, since they will > > see that as a different package than drizzle7-*. They will be very > > confused that they contain much the same files. > > > > Hence we should start releasing either drizzle-7.1.xx.tar.gz packages > > or drizzle 2012.01.xx.tar.gz packages. > > > > Also for marketing purposes this is not that great. Is the version we > > talk about 7 and 7.1 or is it 2011.03 and 2012.02? (if we'd release in > > February) It should be one or the other, not both. > > > > As a related point, I'd like our releases to always contain a tag for > > whether they are stable, beta or whatever: > > drizzle7-2011.11.29-beta.tar.gz > > I'll propose to use following tags: > > - stable > > - rc > > - beta > > - alpha > > - snapshot (anything that isn't one of the above) > > > > I kind of like the 2012.02 type of versioning. Perhaps we could make > > it shorter by using Ubuntu style 12.02, but other than that it is > > quite convenient. Avoids discussion of whether we should do 7.1 or 8.0 > > next. > > > > henrik > > -- > > [email protected] > > +358-40-8211286 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo > > www.openlife.cc > > > > My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9522559 > > > > -- > [email protected] > +358-40-8211286 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo > www.openlife.cc > > My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9522559 > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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