Re: [Xen-devel] (release) versioning

2015-05-07 Thread Tim Deegan
Hi, At 16:54 +0100 on 05 May (1430844841), Jan Beulich wrote: > So comparing current and new schemes things would go > > OLD NEW > 4.6-unstable5.0-unstable (or 5.0.0) > 4.6.0-rc1 5.0.1 (-rc1) > ... .

Re: [Xen-devel] (release) versioning

2015-05-06 Thread Lars Kurth
On 06/05/2015 16:44, "Jan Beulich" wrote: On 06.05.15 at 17:01, wrote: >> Regarding 5.3.0.1 -- now once again you have a 4th digit where >> non-zero means "release"; and do we need RCs for this? Do we have >> 5.3.0.0.1-rc, and then 5,3,0.1 which is stable? > >No, in such cases I don't ex

Re: [Xen-devel] (release) versioning

2015-05-06 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 06.05.15 at 17:01, wrote: > Regarding 5.3.0.1 -- now once again you have a 4th digit where > non-zero means "release"; and do we need RCs for this? Do we have > 5.3.0.0.1-rc, and then 5,3,0.1 which is stable? No, in such cases I don't expect any RCs, just another release (just like was do

Re: [Xen-devel] (release) versioning

2015-05-06 Thread George Dunlap
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > I am OK with the mechanism as is and not sure why it would need > changing. I know you are saying that the existing mechanism > does not convery much information but I think the 'rcX'appended > to the version tag is enough to tell us w

Re: [Xen-devel] (release) versioning

2015-05-06 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 04:54:01PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > All, > > on the hackathon we also discussed possibly changing the versioning > of Xen. The main rationale for the proposal is that (just like in many > other software projects) version numbers (in particular the major > one) currently

Re: [Xen-devel] (release) versioning

2015-05-06 Thread George Dunlap
On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Jan Beulich wrote: > All, > > on the hackathon we also discussed possibly changing the versioning > of Xen. The main rationale for the proposal is that (just like in many > other software projects) version numbers (in particular the major > one) currently don't real

Re: [Xen-devel] (release) versioning

2015-05-06 Thread Dario Faggioli
On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 12:54 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 06.05.15 at 01:15, wrote: > > Well, if we decide to keep the -rcX, then the 3rd digit will be: > > - always .0 for actual releases > > - always the same as -rc* for RCs > > > > so it looks to me that we can just kill it and have: >

Re: [Xen-devel] (release) versioning

2015-05-06 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 06.05.15 at 01:15, wrote: > Well, if we decide to keep the -rcX, then the 3rd digit will be: > - always .0 for actual releases > - always the same as -rc* for RCs > > so it looks to me that we can just kill it and have: > > 5.0-unstable >5.1-rc1 >5.1-rc2 >... >5.1-rcN >

Re: [Xen-devel] (release) versioning

2015-05-06 Thread David Vrabel
On 06/05/15 11:52, Jan Beulich wrote: On 06.05.15 at 12:37, wrote: >> On 06/05/15 08:25, Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 06.05.15 at 09:21, wrote: One exceptional situation is that we had 4.1.6 and 4.1.6.1. I don't expect that to happen very often, but we do make mistakes in the relea

Re: [Xen-devel] (release) versioning

2015-05-06 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 06.05.15 at 12:37, wrote: > On 06/05/15 08:25, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 06.05.15 at 09:21, wrote: >>> One exceptional situation is that we had 4.1.6 and 4.1.6.1. I don't >>> expect that to happen very often, but we do make mistakes in the release >>> process and figure out we need to re

Re: [Xen-devel] (release) versioning

2015-05-06 Thread David Vrabel
On 06/05/15 08:25, Jan Beulich wrote: On 06.05.15 at 09:21, wrote: >> On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 04:54:01PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: >>> All, >>> >>> on the hackathon we also discussed possibly changing the versioning >>> of Xen. The main rationale for the proposal is that (just like in many >>

Re: [Xen-devel] (release) versioning

2015-05-06 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 11:12 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 06.05.15 at 11:02, wrote: > > Adding a trailing redundant -rc (with or without the N) might help, and > > omitting the N (e.g. "5.0.1-rc") would reduce the redundancy to near > > zero. > > Good suggestion. > > > Was 5.0-rcN leading t

Re: [Xen-devel] (release) versioning

2015-05-06 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 06.05.15 at 11:02, wrote: > Adding a trailing redundant -rc (with or without the N) might help, and > omitting the N (e.g. "5.0.1-rc") would reduce the redundancy to near > zero. Good suggestion. > Was 5.0-rcN leading to a 5.0 release considered and ruled out? It wasn't mentioned in the

Re: [Xen-devel] (release) versioning

2015-05-06 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 16:54 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > All, > > on the hackathon we also discussed possibly changing the versioning > of Xen. Sorry I missed this, I had a clash. > The main rationale for the proposal is that (just like in many > other software projects) version numbers (in part

Re: [Xen-devel] (release) versioning

2015-05-06 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 06.05.15 at 09:21, wrote: > On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 04:54:01PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: >> All, >> >> on the hackathon we also discussed possibly changing the versioning >> of Xen. The main rationale for the proposal is that (just like in many >> other software projects) version numbers (

Re: [Xen-devel] (release) versioning

2015-05-06 Thread Wei Liu
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 04:54:01PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > All, > > on the hackathon we also discussed possibly changing the versioning > of Xen. The main rationale for the proposal is that (just like in many > other software projects) version numbers (in particular the major > one) currently

Re: [Xen-devel] (release) versioning

2015-05-05 Thread Dario Faggioli
On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 18:05 +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 05/05/15 16:54, Jan Beulich wrote: > > All, > > > > on the hackathon we also discussed possibly changing the versioning > > of Xen. The main rationale for the proposal is that (just like in many > > other software projects) version number

Re: [Xen-devel] (release) versioning

2015-05-05 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 05/05/15 16:54, Jan Beulich wrote: > All, > > on the hackathon we also discussed possibly changing the versioning > of Xen. The main rationale for the proposal is that (just like in many > other software projects) version numbers (in particular the major > one) currently don't really convey much