[GCompris-devel] Preparing release 0.50

[Bruno Friedmann]

On Tuesday 24 November 2015 01.46:45 Bruno Coudoin wrote:
> 
> Le 22/11/2015 20:46, Bruno Friedmann a écrit :
> > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 03.39:21 Bruno Coudoin wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>> Any idea (ETA) when we could see 0.50 released and put at
> >>> http://gcompris.net/download/ , some sort an initial .deb package. I
> >>> am guessing it would take quite some time.
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> It is not a good idea to distribute a .deb on gcompris.net. This is not
> >> the usual distribution way for debian users.
> >>
> >> I would prefer to look after other options like a universal installer
> >> like Qt is doing for Qt Creator for example.
> >>
> >>> Also if there is a changelog that I could look at/follow -
> >>>
> >>> https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/edu/gcompris/repository/revisions/master/revisions
> >>> as Bruno's notes didn't tell where I or other interested folks could
> >>> get info.  about  what changes there was in between the last release
> >>> and this one . From buno's present 'confession' of the same below -
> >>>
> >>> "So far we have many fixes and improvements all around in 355 commits and
> >>> 10 new activities have been added:
> >>>
> >>> By Bruno : chess, chess_2players, chess_partyend, melody
> >>> By Siddhesh Suthar (part of GSoC): lang
> >>> By Pulkit Gupta: paintings
> >>> By Johnny Jazeix, readingh, readingv
> >>> Sagar Chand Agarwal (part of GSoC): renewable_energy, watercycle " -  Bruno
> >>>
> >> I don't understand very well what you expect here. A more detailed
> >> change log ?
> >>
> >> Bruno.
> >  https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/gcompris-devel
> >
> > Last randa Meetings I've successfully build an version for openSUSE.
> >
> > https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Education/gcompris-qt
> > So people can download and install it easily from
> > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/[Their_openSUSE_Version]
> >
> > It was a 0.44 tarball. Is there any new tarball.
> Hi,
> 
> No there is no new tarball and no new official release. We are in string
> freeze at the moment so a new release will be there in the coming weeks.
> 
> > It is also very easy to make a package from a git source.
> > So would you like that I snapshot actually what's happening in 
> > https://github.com/bdoin/GCompris-qt 
> I have no idea if we have a public for that.
> > Bruno, if you create release on github its even more easier..
> > I'm kinda think of release in the kde sense (.70 = alpha, 80 = beta, 90 = rc) 
> > so 0.49.90 ? before the real 0.5 ?
> I was not aware of this numbering scheme. Can you point me to where this
> scheme is documented, can't find it.
> >

It was mentioned recently in a blog post of Alex Merry
https://randomguy3.wordpress.com/2015/11/18/library-versioning/

Not sure there a rule written down. But was used during the last few years.

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