From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: (release) versioning
Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 11:21:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1430907671.2660.198.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <554A054402000078000770C6@mail.emea.novell.com>
On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 11:12 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 06.05.15 at 11:02, <ian.campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
> > Adding a trailing redundant -rc (with or without the N) might help, and
> > omitting the N (e.g. "5.0.1-rc") would reduce the redundancy to near
> > zero.
>
> Good suggestion.
>
> > Was 5.0-rcN leading to a 5.0 release considered and ruled out?
>
> It wasn't mentioned in the discussion I think, but ...
>
> > I suppose
> > it looses the benefit of the numeric portion sorting properly.
>
> ... based on this I had rules it out before that (and hence didn't
> even bring it up as a possibility). And using 5.0-rcN to lead to a
> 5.1.0 release would become odd/misleading the latest for
> subsequent stable release RCs.
Right, I had meant 5.0-rc leading to a 5.0(.0) release.
(Anyway I'm ok with "5.0.1-rc", so it doesn't matter)
Ian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-06 10:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-05 15:54 (release) versioning Jan Beulich
2015-05-05 17:05 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-05-05 23:15 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-05-06 11:54 ` Jan Beulich
2015-05-06 12:45 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-05-06 7:21 ` Wei Liu
2015-05-06 7:25 ` Jan Beulich
2015-05-06 10:37 ` David Vrabel
2015-05-06 10:52 ` Jan Beulich
2015-05-06 10:57 ` David Vrabel
2015-05-06 9:02 ` Ian Campbell
2015-05-06 10:12 ` Jan Beulich
2015-05-06 10:21 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2015-05-06 14:58 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2015-05-06 15:19 ` George Dunlap
2015-05-06 15:01 ` George Dunlap
2015-05-06 15:44 ` Jan Beulich
2015-05-06 15:55 ` Lars Kurth
2015-05-07 10:54 ` Tim Deegan
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