Release Team BoF Summary

[Torgny Nyblom]

On Friday 13 July 2012 19.44.38 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El Divendres, 13 de juliol de 2012, a les 14:31:35, Aurélien Gâteau va 
> escriure:
> > Le jeudi 12 juillet 2012 20:43:12 Albert Astals Cid a écrit :
> > > So here comes the summary of the Release Team BoF, the attached picture is
> > > all we wrote during the BoF itself so all written here is me trying to
> > > remember what we said, if any of the presents disagrees or remembers more,
> > > please do not hesitate to comment.
> > 
> > Something which we discussed in the KDE Quality BoF and is of interest to
> > the KDE Release Team is the numbering of unstable versions.
> > 
> > Up to now we have been using 4.N.8* and 4.N.9* for alpha, beta and rc. The
> > problem with those is it is difficult when you get a report on 4.8.85 to
> > know if the user is running beta1, beta2, rc1 or something else.
> > 
> > To address this we proposed the following numbering scheme:
> > 
> > 4.N.7{1,2,3} => N+1 alpha 1, 2, 3
> > 4.N.8{1,2,3} => N+1 beta 1, 2, 3
> > 4.N.9{1,2,3} => N+1 rc 1, 2, 3
> > 
> > With this scheme, 4.10 alpha 1 would be 4.9.71, 4.10 beta 2 would be 4.9.82
> 
> This helps with remembering but breaks our "traditions", to be honest i don't 
> care, any other opinion?

I like the idea.

/Torgny