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[Martin Alnæs <martinal@xxxxxxxxx>]

Packaging prereleases could be done on an as needed basis. The use case for this is quick distribution of new features to research partners who are less involved with fenics.

Martin

Den 28. okt. 2011 kl. 19:06 skrev "Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>:

> On 28 October 2011 17:43, Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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"?
>> 
> 
> Good point. Maybe we need to decide on which releases/snapshots we
> package? Do we want to bother packing snapshots from trunk?
> 
> Garth
> 
> 
>> Johannes
>> 
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