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[Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fully agree.

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Monty Taylor <mordred@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
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