KDE Applications Versioning

[Albert Astals Cid]

Since this hasn't been finalized I didn't include it in my email to kde-cvs-
announce about the creation of the 15.08 branches for the KDE Applications 
modules.

Cheers,
  Albert

El Dimarts, 14 de juliol de 2015, a les 07:08:57, Andreas Cord-Landwehr va 
escriure:
> On Monday 13 July 2015 23:14:17 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > I did a few tweaks, i still feel it seems this is "the official way" other
> > than an "optional way" of defining the version but maybe that's just me.
> 
> Hi, I have the same feeling as Albert that the current text is not clear
> enough that both variants (increase version by hand and using the scripted
> approach) are fine.
> 
> What about adding an introduction paragraph like the following:
> 
> --------- <snip> -------------
> Every application has an application version number that regular has to be
> increased to distinguish different versions of the application (e.g.,
> features, bugfixes). When an application does not have its own release
> schedule but is released alongside with KDE Applications, there is also the
> version number of the KDE Applications release. It is the maintainer's duty
> to take care on increasing the version number regularly and there are
> specifically two possible ways:
> 
> 1. increase the version number by hand for each new release
> 2. use the same version number as KDE Applications and let the release
> script update the version number
> 
> In the following, we explain how to use the scripted version numbers.
> --------- <snap> -------------
> 
> If it is OK this way, I can add it later today to the wiki page.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andreas