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[Monty Taylor <mordred@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/27/2010 07:54 AM, Soren Hansen wrote:
> Hey, guys.
> 
> We need to get our versioning sorted out. When I uploaded the first
> packages to my PPA, it was based on the packaging in the original git
> repo which read 0.3.0. Later on, after much merging around, it was
> bumped back to 0.2.2.  Because of this the version of the packages in
> the PPA is currently 0.3.0+really0.2.2-something (because versions must
> be strictly monotonically increasing).  I'd like to restore some sanity
> to this :)

Yes. I agree.

Also note that there is a ~nova-core PPA now that you can upload
packages to ...

> So, we need to decide on the versioning scheme. I would have liked it if
> Swift and Nova would have the same version numbers. I would also have
> liked it if 1.0.0 was the version that were to come out in three months
> time with the first official release. However, seeing as Swift already
> has a 1.0.0 (and 1.0.1, I think) out, that's not going to work (since
> they'd have go back to 1.0.0 which makes everyone unhappy, or we'd all
> have to jump to 2.0.0 which seems odd). Also, more projects may join
> OpenStack later on with pre-existing versioning history, so I think it
> makes sense just to focus on Nova's versioning.
> 
> As such, I'd like to propose that our first release, scheduled to come
> out in about three months, will be version 1.0.0. I'd also like to
> immediately bump the current version to 0.9.0, and have the packages in
> the PPA be versioned something like 0.9.0+bzrXXX-0ubuntu0ppa1 where XXX
> is the bzr revno of lp:nova.

Agree.