Re: Official releases?

[Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>]

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Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 12:36 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
>> Josh Boyer wrote:
>>> I'm just curious if anyone is ever really going to do an "official"
>>> release of sparse.  We've got daily snapshots provided by Dave Jones,
>>> and git of course, but will an official release tarball with shiny
>>> version numbers and everything be created?
>> Since sparse doesn't use any autofoolery, and doesn't include a version number
>> in the source anywhere, making a release should just require running git tag
>> and git archive, and putting the resulting tarball up in an official location.
>> As far as version numbering, it seems reasonable to use the former kernel
>> versioning system: major.oddeven.revision, starting from something like 0.1.0,
>> and keeping major version 0 until sparse can comfortably provide some
>> guarantee of backward compatibility for sparse extensions.  Thus, periodic
>> releases (0.1.1, 0.1.2, ...) wouldn't take much effort at all, and eventually
>> calling one "stable" (0.2.0, with crash-fixes an similar backported to produce
>> 0.2.1, 0.2.2, ...) would mostly consist of a judgement call.
> 
> Great.  Did you see Linus' email suggesting that I ask you to do
> this? :)

I did, and I plan to roll a release this weekend.

- Josh Triplett



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