[Portland] New versioning/release scheme

[wwp]

Hello Per,


On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 05:17:00 +0200 Per Olofsson <pelle at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm proposing a new versioning and release scheme for xdg-utils:
> 
> 1. Let's follow the semantic versioning (http://semver.org/) specification.
> 
> 2. Let's release early and often. I don't think the release candidate
> system is very useful. It's more important that we can release new
> versions with fewer bugs, because xdg-utils is pretty buggy. The git
> HEAD will almost always have fewer bugs than the current release. My
> automatic test suite will hopefully help us avoid regressions.
> 
> The consequence of these two points would be that I would release 1.1.0
> right away (no more rc's), and then we could release 1.1.1, 1.1.2,
> 1.1.3, and so on pretty rapidly when needed. If we add new features we
> would bump to 1.2.0. In the unlikely case that we break the interface we
> would have to bump to 2.0.0.
> 
> Does this sound good to you?

Voting for, in general (compared to what's been done all those past years).

More often? What do you mean exactly? Scheduling minor version on a
specific frequency?


Regards,

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wwp
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