Re: (release) versioning

[David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>]

On 06/05/15 11:52, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 06.05.15 at 12:37, <david.vrabel@citrix.com> wrote:
>> On 06/05/15 08:25, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>>> On 06.05.15 at 09:21, <wei.liu2@citrix.com> wrote:
>>>> One exceptional situation is that we had 4.1.6 and 4.1.6.1. I don't
>>>> expect that to happen very often, but we do make mistakes in the release
>>>> process and figure out we need to release a slightly updated version.
>>>> How does this fit into the proposed scheme?
>>>
>>> I think we would just attach a .1 to the previous version the same
>>> way we did there, i.e. 5.2.0.1.
>>
>> What happens if this minor fixup itself needs a micro fixup?  Do we then
>> have 5.2.0.1.1? etc. etc.
> 
> No, that would (naturally I would say) become 5.2.0.2.
> 
>> Why not always bump the minor version regardless of how small the change
>> was?
> 
> That's certainly an option, but we chose the other route on the one
> occasion when we needed it.

Fair enough, I don't really mind.

David