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[Martin Sandve Alnæs <martinal@xxxxxxxxx>]

When branching out for a full release with feature changes, y in x.y.z will
be bumped. When only bugfixes happen in that series later, z is bumped.

Pre is just lightweight snapshots, but having the option of packages for
collaborators is good, so if using alpha is better then I am all for that.

Martin
Den 28. okt. 2011 18.51 skrev "Johannes Ring" <johannr@xxxxxxxxx> følgende:

> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > There has been some concern regarding the lack of predictability in
> > FEniCS releases. Yesterday, some of us at Simula met to discuss what
> > can be done to improve the situation. The result is the following
> > draft for a future development model:
> >
> >  http://fenicsproject.org/contributing/development_model.html
> >
> > Please comment on the draft and suggest corrections.
> >
> > The new development model calls for a "release manager" to coordinate
> > each stable release (currently 1.0). I can volunteer to serve as
> > release manager this time. I'd be happy to step aside if someone else
> > is motivated.
> >
> > I know some of you, in particular those from Simula who helped draft
> > the proposal, have already said OK, but please respond anyway for the
> > record.
>
> I also agree that it looks like a good model, however, as a Debian
> maintainer, I'm a bit worried about the version numbering. For some
> time ago we agreed (at least some of us) that at least Y should be
> bumped on interface changes in the DOLFIN shared library. Does this
> still fit in with this model?
>
> I also don't like version numbers like 1.1-pre1 because it isn't "less
> than" for instance 1.1-beta1:
>
>    $ dpkg --compare-versions 1.1-pre1 lt 1.1-beta1; echo $?
>   1
>
> Can we use something else than "pre"? How about "alpha"?
>
> Johannes
>
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