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Re: Versioning

 

Makes sense.

On Jul 27, 2010, at 9:27 AM, Jay Pipes wrote:

> 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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