So if I understand it right, Swift will have releases every 6 months along with all the other Openstack projects. In between those 6 months too, there will stable, production-ready releases, but not necessarily at any fixed cadence.
Good to know about semantic versioning. Thanks once again. -Shri On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:09 PM, John Dickinson <m...@not.mn> wrote: > Swift absolutely and without a doubt participates in OpenStack releases. > OpenStack releases on a six-month cadence, and Swift participates in this > integrated release (as do all other OpenStack projects). > > In between the OpenStack integrated releases, Swift differs from some other > OpenStack projects by not doing milestone releases. Instead, Swift releases > stable, production-ready versions. All Swift releases use a semantic > versioning scheme. Currently we're on 1.12.0 and our next release will be > 1.13. We have a release of Swift near the end of the six-month OpenStack > cycle that is included in the integrated release. For example, OpenStack > Havana included Swift 1.10. > > I hope this clears things up. > > --John > > > > On Feb 20, 2014, at 10:48 AM, Shrinand Javadekar <shrin...@maginatics.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I know that Swift releases do not necessarily coincide with major >> Openstack releases (like Grizzly, Havana, etc.). >> >> 1) Does Swift have a fixed release cadence? >> >> 2) Also, I see that the current releases are all versioned as 1.XY. >> Does this mean that these are minor releases and some major Swift >> release will happen sometime soon when the version # will be bumped to >> 2.0? >> >> We develop software that uses Swift as backend storage. I need to >> figure out how many Swift versions we need to keep running tests >> against. And whether we need to do something special for major/minor >> Swift releases. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> -Shri >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack >> Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org >> Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack
