Hi,

> On 22-Oct-2014, at 7:12 pm, Pierre-Luc Dion <pd...@cloudops.com> wrote:
>
> Does packages from  j.bac.o  will have a -SNAPSHOT or -<date> suffix in
> packages and acs version from the API ?

If you add -SNAPSHOT, -date or any suffix it will be packages names (the 
deb/rpm file etc) but no in version returned from API (I think version info in 
API/DB should be something like 4.4.1 and not 4.4.1-SNAPSHOT)

> I don't think the suffix addition
> should be to user discretion but be there by default when using documented
> build procedure. also, if I compare to lot of other free software dev, the
> current working version is always pre release version number, as example
> for us:  working on 4.5.0 would mean that the current version in pom.xmls
> would be 4.4.99 and at the release commit for GA, the version would be bump
> to 4.5.0.

Regarding 4.4.99-> 4.5.0 etc, this is entirely different versioning scheme. I’m 
not proposing to change versioning conventions, just that we remove -SNAPSHOT 
if we don’t really need it.

To differentiate between GA and other releases, other ways of adding suffixes 
on package names (such as filenames of the deb/rpm packages, or filenames of 
tarballs etc) can be used.

> I'm concerned on having a dev branch like 4.5 having pom.xml
> package(rpm/deb) version set to a non GA 4.5.0, because if somewone build
> is own RPMs or use  those from j.bac.o, how can he know afterward that he
> is running on a non GA version ?

I see j.bac.o only for test builds and not for production, because you’re right 
we don’t know if it was GA or some other build. What we can do is, we store the 
git SHA used for building/packaging in cloudstack-common package in a text 
file. So, in future if someone is not sure they can read the SHA and compare if 
it was GA or not.

ShapeBlue is going to release a public CloudStack repo/systemvmtemplate/doc 
etc. hosting for everyone soon. It tries to solve the information issue for 
users, for example people don’t know which deb/rpm version/build they installed 
and they may not know what git SHA or tag was used to build them, or if it was 
GA/official-release or patched.

Regards,
Rohit Yadav
Software Architect, ShapeBlue
M. +91 88 262 30892 | rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com
Blog: bhaisaab.org | Twitter: @_bhaisaab

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