[Libreoffice] Release tag convention

Norbert Thiebaud nthiebaud at gmail.com
Tue Dec 7 09:22:48 PST 2010


On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Petr Mladek <pmladek at suse.cz> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> there is a proposal to use the tag "libreoffice-3.3.0.1" instead of
> "LIBREOFFICE_3_3_0_1" and mention it in the LibreOffice/About dialog as
> is. It is more clear and understandable.
>
> Would you mind if we do this change for LibO-3.3-rc2?

If it is going to be user-visible (as in an About Box), why not avoid
abbreviations ?
that is: LibreOffice-3.3-rc2
?

Norbert

>
>
> Note that the uppercase- and underscore-naming scheme comes from the CVS
> days. CVS did not allowed dots in the tag names, ... Other projects use
> the lower case and dots these days...
>
> For more details, read the discussion starting at
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2010-December/003957.html
>
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Petr
>
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