Release Script

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tuesday, July 03, 2012 07:14:40 PM Michael Jansen wrote:
> > > The last step is done in maven because the support something called
> > > snapshot release which means their version looks like
> > > 4.7.1-20120621_151400. I think it could make sense to support that
> > > too. Stuff build from master or branch would be easily
> > > distuinguishable from really released stuff.
> > 
> > If you're suggesting to use <version>-<commit tag>.tar.xz tarballs,
> > then please forget that. That may not affect binary distributions, but
> > it affects source distributions.
> > Source distributions really appreciate consistent and *predictable*
> > names and URLs.
> 
> I can not see where you got the impression that i would like to do that for
> major, minor or patch release. Standard KDE releases will always have real
> version numbers like today,
> 
> If you have a problem with us setting up weekly snapshots in that format,
> then you may have a point because i am thinking about that use case. Afaik
> some distros provide weekly snapshots straight from our branches. If our
> release system is fully scripted we could make weekly snapshot releases and
> ask them to use those. They might look like that. Or perhaps have the git
> or subversion number somewhere in the name.
> 
> IF we really do that.
> 
> I think we did it for a time. At least i remember some " a new snow storm, a
> new snapshot" commits by dirk. But no idea how they got released/packaged.

For Kubuntu (and any system based on Debian packaging), we need the version 
numbers to be monotonically increasing.  Subversion revision number have this 
property, but Git tags to do not.  Date tags (e.g. YYYY-MM-DD) work very 
nicely and since you're not planning on more than once per day releases, they 
take care of the sorting issue.  It also removes the need to deal with svn and 
git hosted packages differently.

Scott K