Re: Version numbers of unreleased stable and development versions

[Didier Verna <didier@xemacs.org>]

OK, here's what I finally understand:

- there's the development branch (the trunk) in CVS with the unstable version
- there's the stable branch in CVS
- there's ALSO a stable branch in GNU Emacs'CVS

and then, 

- the unstable branch leads or should lead to official beta versions
  from time to time
- BOTH stable branches should lead to official patchlevel versions from
  time to time
- which in turn lead to official stable patchlevel releases.

So here's what I think would be the most human-readable version
numbering scheme:


In the trunk
============
Gnus 6.0 beta 1 cvs 2007-08-01
                    2007-08-02
                    ..........
                               Gnus 6.0 beta 1 => Tagged beta release

Gnus 6.0 beta 2 cvs 2007-09-01
                    2007-09-02
                    ..........
                               Gnus 6.0 beta 2 => Tagged beta release

[ etc, finally leading to Gnus 6.0 ]


In the stable branch
====================
(while the trunk gets Gnus 6.1 beta)

                               Gnus 6.0        => Tagged stable release

Gnus 6.0.1 cvs 2007-10-01
           cvs 2007-10-02
               ..........
                               Gnus 6.0.1      => Tagged stable release

Gnus 6.0.2 cvs 2007-11-01
           cvs 2007-11-02
               ..........
                               Gnus 6.0.2      => Tagged stable release

[ etc ]


In the GNU Emacs repository
===========================

Gnus 6.0.1 emacs cvs 2007-10-01
           emacs cvs 2007-10-02
                     ..........
                               Gnus 6.0.1

Gnus 6.0.2 emacs cvs 2007-11-01
           emacs cvs 2007-11-02
                     ..........
                               Gnus 6.0.2

[ etc ]


And of course, the stable patchlevel tags should be synchronized between
our repository and that of GNU Emacs.


So, to summarize:

Unstable versions are: Gnus <major>.<minor> beta <level>
Stable   versions are: Gnus <major>.<minor>.<patchlevel>

For intermediate CVS versions, add: [emacs] cvs yyyy-mm-dd


This is verbose, but quite clear I think. One could also wish to be more
coherent between stable and beta numbering, in which case we could also
think of: Gnus <major>.<minor> patchlevel <number>


Wadya think ?


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