KDE Applications Versioning

[Christoph Cullmann]

Hi,

> 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.
I somehow missed that mail ;=)

I am all for adding that paragraph and then moving the wiki page to the right place.

Greetings
Christoph

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