[gst-devel] RELEASE: GStreamer Good Plug-ins 0.10.15 'I've been up all night'

[Jan Schmidt]

On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 15:01 +0300, René Stadler wrote:

> No, not all people are fine with the current release procedure. But it's really 
> just small (but annoying) details that are easy to fix.
> 
> The CVS way for tags was that "you can't have . characters in them", so the 
> outcome was the ugly RELEASE_0_10_14. Now git not only let's you use dots 
> (which is obviously good for consistency), but there's also a sane guideline 
> for versioned release tags: v0.10.14. This is what git.git and kernel does. 
> Some git tools treat these tags a bit differently. It looks nice. It's what 
> people new to GStreamer expect the tags to be (since it's in git!). 

Hey, we have tools that recognise the tags we use too. Big whoop.

> Why argue about this?

Indeed.

*ignores the rest of the irritating bike-shedding thread*

- J.
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Jan Schmidt <thaytan at noraisin.net>