On Saturday, 17 September 2016 00:01:59 CEST Ben Cooksley wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 11:10 PM, Luigi Toscano > > <luigi.tosc...@tiscali.it> wrote: > > On Friday, 16 September 2016 23:04:38 CEST Ben Cooksley wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:55 PM, Luigi Toscano > >> > >> <luigi.tosc...@tiscali.it> wrote: > >> > On Friday, 16 September 2016 22:52:32 CEST Ben Cooksley wrote: > >> >> Hi all, > >> >> > >> >> It seems that KDE PIM, despite being part of the Applications release, > >> >> doesn't align it's internal version numbers with the rest of the > >> >> Applications release. > >> >> > >> >> This causes issues - as we've received complaints about various > >> >> products (all being PIM products) missing versions on bugs.kde.org, > >> >> due to this mismatch. It's also confusing for users. > >> >> > >> >> Can PIM please fall in line with the rest of Applications? > >> > > >> > I don't think this is required: many pieces of Applications uses a > >> > different internal version. I'd really like to have this not enforced. > >> > >> I'd like to see it enforced. > >> See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335654#c7 for the confusion > >> created (and Sysadmin effort taken). > > > > I understand it takes effort, but I strongly disagree with the enforcing. > > > >> It also means that the process of releasing applications can't be > >> automated to create all the necessary versions, so someone has to do > >> it manually. > >> And chances are, it ain't going to be the application maintainer. > > > > The versions are defined in each repository; they can be extracted (by the > > CI, by some other script) and compared with the list of available version > > for each component. I.e. it can be automated even with different internal > > versions. > How would you version the tags in such a misaligned world? > At the moment it's very confusing as to what the version is - what the > Application says it is or what the general release umbrella says it > is.
I don't see how it affects the tag. The tag is the global one for Applications, the internal version <application> --version or the about info shows the version. > > For that reason i'd very much like to see it harmonized. The problem here is to have an easy way to update the version data on bugzilla. I think that this can be automated. -- Luigi