David H. DeWolf wrote: >> I don't see the harm in re-rolling the distribution. We did it a couple >> of times for 1.1.0. > > That's a PMC decision and right now it looks like the PMC prefers to not > recut releases. I'm sure that fairly soon the PMC will come out with a > defined release process, for now, I'm just trying to follow the spirit > of the law that doesn't exist yet. > > Carsten, can you help explain the reasoning behind this? While I agree > with it, I'm not sure I totally understand the reasons why it makes > sense :). On the surface it sounds scary to people, but in practice, > after accepting it, I've liked it. Can you help explain why? > The reason is pretty simply, as soon as we put something up as a release with a specific version number, like 1.1.0, people will (or might) download it. Even if it's not the official release and we put it on a download server for voting on it.
If we now recut the release, we have two different releases with the same version number out there. You never know if someone is refering to 1.1.0 if he means the first one or the second one. Just incrementing the version number is very cheap and avoids this confusion. Carsten -- Carsten Ziegeler http://www.osoco.org/weblogs/rael/
