Release Team BoF Summary

[Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto]

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On 14-07-2012 10:29, Michael Jansen wrote:
> On Friday, July 13, 2012 02:31:35 PM Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
>> 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
> 
> Why not marking an alpha, beta and rc as what it is and every other
> project out there already does? Why masking is as a stable
> release?
> 
> 4.N.1~alpha1 4.N.1~alpha2 4.N.1~beta1 4.N.1~beta2 4.N.1~rc 4.N.1
> 
> Which btw. was discussed on this very list. So i would like to know
> what the rationale behind this scheme is. Why keep doing it?

Both proposals are fine for us (Gentoo).

Mike, I assume in the above you meant to say given a release 4.N, the
versions of the new release will be:

4.(N+1)-alpha1
4.(N+1)-alpha2
4.(N+1)-beta1
4.(N+1)-beta2
4.(N+1)-rc
4.(N+1)

> Mike
> 
> 
> 
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Regards,

Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / KDE / Elections / RelEng


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