From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/77071 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Version numbering Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:27:54 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87lj19m1g1.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298330897 15897 80.91.229.12 (21 Feb 2011 23:28:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:28:17 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M25404@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Feb 22 00:28:13 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PrfAr-0000VS-2U for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:28:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PrfAm-0006Ck-CM; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:28:08 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PrfAk-0006CN-Jg for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:28:06 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PrfAg-0001CQ-2O for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:28:06 -0600 Original-Received: from mail-iw0-f172.google.com ([209.85.214.172]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PrfAf-0005Ug-1h for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:28:01 +0100 Original-Received: by iwl42 with SMTP id 42so3518335iwl.17 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:27:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=C3Fd7cA1taEYTn39Vp6BElbb9SysX9/j5Aj1TMpA2Uo=; b=SxbwcuovHhP3yY2YGy8J8jq39VuzY1PyFRM286nNpzo4w9jDBp0PNMFX2kF/mnkVK6 9M4MqRv9RZVBuz7Qnz4yxPq6l6RIslHh7XS7DCK/mQINplJSWZrL9JuBnuGy9WOwWNtw wagsFXt+jUB8cogbT0CAJai30xbcqA6PvCspg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=yH1q4ceUnrh+KFP9ygjDYLlunJsVT0APsSEwH1QyPddEIqrjiyK2Y2mQEC0YSbCXlc MHeNy8gFC8j8fEkrGP24sPR/ayHMmNlUVHiVpXChjgIPEtagyDe1UOAINHWRz3Unl0Ym aQp79kPtXiVoy2TcJ0/WP0k38kGea/o8dI0Nc= Original-Received: by 10.231.85.137 with SMTP id o9mr1612419ibl.27.1298330874168; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:27:54 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.231.170.13 with HTTP; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:27:54 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87lj19m1g1.fsf@gnus.org> X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:77071 Archived-At: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: > I had a brain fart last night while doing the first git-based release. > > I added the "is released" stuff and pushed it out, and then bumped and > tagged the stuff as "n0-12". > > But, of course, if you pull down n0-11, you get a two year old version > of Gnus. =C2=A0To get No Gnus v0.11, you need to pull down the version ju= st > before it got tagged as n0-12. =C2=A0That's obviously not any good. > > So I think what I should have done is bump the version number, tag as > n0-12, say "No Gnus 0.12 is released", and then bump the version to > 0.13, and tag as n0-13. =C2=A0So that the even ones are the things people= can > download if they want a specific version. > > Alternatively, since that's pretty complicated, I could just bump the > version, tag, release, and then not bump the version. =C2=A0So instead of= the > version number being "trailing", it would be, er, "leading". > > Or I could bump the version, tag, release, and bump the version again > without tagging. =C2=A0That way there will be a tag for every two release= s, > so the next tag will be n0-13, and then n0-15, and so on. > > That would mean that all tags will be "releases", but there wouldn't be > as many of them as there are versions. > > Hm. =C2=A0I like this last option best, I think. Why not only tag releases and then use a development branch for all ongoing work until the next merge and tag release party?