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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
To: Jason Gunthorpe
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	linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Versioning scheme for rdma-plumbing
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 23:15:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160915061509.GB4869@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160914173327.GJ16014-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:33:27AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> >  - it allows for much smoother minor updates.  I hope this will be
> >    rare, but my experience from various projects tells me that they
> >    will occasionally be needed.
> 
> Can you explain this some more?
> 
> If we use a single integer ala udev, I'd see minor updates, LTS
> branch, etc being released with a suffix eg: 123.2

Well, that's not a monotonically increasing version number anymore.
And at least in the past systemd folks argued against even doing these
releases.  If you're fine with doing minor releases off these single
component versions this argument goes away of course.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-15  6:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-14  4:47 Versioning scheme for rdma-plumbing Jason Gunthorpe
     [not found] ` <20160914044745.GB7975-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-14 12:28   ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]     ` <20160914122820.GA32048-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-14 17:33       ` Jason Gunthorpe
     [not found]         ` <20160914173327.GJ16014-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-14 19:53           ` Jarod Wilson
     [not found]             ` <20160914195335.GC8644-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-14 20:32               ` Jason Gunthorpe
     [not found]                 ` <20160914203204.GA14548-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-15  5:05                   ` Knut Omang
2016-09-15  6:15           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
     [not found]             ` <20160915061509.GB4869-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-15 16:02               ` Jason Gunthorpe
     [not found]                 ` <20160915160223.GB18154-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-16  8:50                   ` Christoph Hellwig

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