[Libreoffice] Git tags: why not "3.3.4-rc2" instead of "3.3.4.2"

[Gioele Barabucci]

On 18/08/2011 16:15, Miklos Vajna wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:27:14PM +0200, Gioele Barabucci<gioele at svario.it>  wrote:
>> I was wondering why the git tags are named `3.3.4.2` for 3.3.4-rc2
>> instead of the more natural `3.3.4-rc2` or the more common `v3.3.4-rc2`.
>> I am used to see 3.3.4.2 as the second bugfix release for 3.3.4, or, in
>> more mathematical terms, 3.3.4.2>  3.3.4 = 3.3.4.0. I hope 3.5-rc1 will
>> not be tagged as 3.5.1.
>>
>> Is this behaviour a leftover of the SVN workflow? Could it be changed?
>
> The problem is that when 3.4.x.y is tagged in git, nobody knows if it
> will be the last RC or not. The final 3.4.x release is always the same
> as the last RC, and there is only one 3.4.x.y tag for them.

Sorry, but I do not understand. What I'd do to release `3.4.1-rc2` is

1. tag current commit with `v3.4.1-rc2`,
2. ask for review,
3. if no problem is found, tag same commit with `v3.4.1`.

In case changes are needed:

3b. make change and tag the current commit with `v3.4.1-rc2`,
4. ask for another review,
4. tag same commit with `v3.4.1`.

Also in this case you have only one `3.4.X-rcY` tag for each `3.4.X`.

There must be something that I miss...

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Gioele Barabucci <gioele at svario.it>