[Libreoffice-qa] [Libreoffice] Naming builds. Please???

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 11:40:01PM +0000, Pedro Lino wrote:

>> Git commit IDs as identifiers have the huge problem that they are not
>> comparable (one cannot say which one is "greater") without referring
>> to the repository. How about we also put the *commit* (not author)
>> timestamp (in UTC) of the top node (commit), and maybe the branch?

>> Something like:

>> Build assembled from:
>>  repo  commit   date               branch
>>  core: 4f11d0a 2011-11-16 21:57:28 master
>>  help: adcf6d5 2011-11-05 14:01:21 master
>>  ...

>> Or instead of pretty-printing the date, just put it as seconds
>> since the epoch:

>>  core: 4f11d0a 1321480648 master
>>  help: adcf6d5 1320501681 master

> That would solve the problem when looking into the log file but not
> when looking at the About box.

No, my idea was to put the above text in the about box, to replace our
current 4f11d0a-adcf6d5-... string.

-- 
Lionel