I like Yarko's proposal of R- as it will stay in line with B- B2-, RC- etc etc.
Hopefully we can get to a point we start having release candidates instead of jumping 4 versions because of simple bugfixes :) (I'm staring at you 1.77.1-4) -- Thadeus On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Álvaro Justen [Turicas] <alvarojus...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 16:58, Yarko Tymciurak > <resultsinsoftw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> RE: using R- as a prefix to release number (especially if adding >> "RELEASE" as a tag that always points to the LATEST RELEASE): >> >> Note that the "RELEASE" tag will move: it essentially will be re- >> tagging at each release. >> >> As relases move along, having a "R-" prefix will leave past releases >> marked conspicuously. If ONLY releases will be tagged, this might be >> superfluous - BUT is patches, or test posts are (at any point in the >> future) tagged, then a way to clearly, unambiguously be able to find >> Release tags will be important. There may be other ways to approach >> this, but this is common, simple, allows tagging a release as beta, >> release candidate, and (potentially) release, without the need to add >> any revisions, for example: >> >> B2-1.99.99, RC-1.99.99, and R-1.99.99 might all be different >> changesets - OR the same changeset that passed all these gates. >> >> The discussion of a tag format of the form: [Release state]-[Release >> number] is useful. It should not be mixed up with discussion of >> having ONE tag which always marks the latest release - these are >> separate concerns. > > I think we should use just the release number as the tag for release > versions. If we are talking about a bugfix ou release candidate (that > are in a lowest number compared to releases), so we can use > number-bugfix or number-RC. > The "default" approach to tag versions is to tag releases so, please, > don't put this ugly "R-" before the version number - it is intuitive > and more simple. But the exceptions (anything that isn't a release, > like RC and bugfixes) should be explicitly tagged. > We need to use more of the KISS philosophy. > >> Hope that helps clarify. >> Regards, >> - Yarko >> >> On Apr 20, 11:27 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: >>> This is easier than I thought. Thanks to yarko for insisting about >>> this. Please make sure I do it properly. >>> >>> On Apr 20, 10:27 am, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> wrote: >>> >>> > You mean, I will finally have a way to run stable versions of web2py >>> > but easily update them !? w00t! >>> >>> > -- >>> > Thadeus >>> >>> > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Yarko Tymciurak >>> >>> > <resultsinsoftw...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > > heckings, so you can ALWAYS get the latest release from Goog >>> >>> > -- >>> > Subscription >>> > settings:http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/subscribe?hl=en > > -- > Álvaro Justen - Turicas > http://blog.justen.eng.br/ > 21 9898-0141 >
