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Re: Use "1.7.7" for next release (was: Re: 1.7.5 in one/two weeks?)

From: Blair Zajac <blair_at_orcaware.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:31:01 -0700

On 4/14/12 12:24 PM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
> 2012/4/12 Daniel Shahaf<danielsh_at_apache.org>:
>> We released 1.6.18 today and 1.7.4 just over a month ago. There are
>> a few useful items merged already, and STATUS has a truckload of pending
>> changes.
>>
>> Shall we roll 1.7.5 in two weeks from today? If we can clear STATUS and
>> roll next Thursday that's fine too, but I don't think we're in a hurry.
>
> Hi!
>
> I have a proposal:
> Skip several numbers and name the next release as "1.7.7".
>
> Justification: to align with TortoiseSVN, which is 1.7.6 now.
>
> There is a lot of "Subversion exception!" threads on users@
> where TortoiseSVN version is visible. For example [1].
>
> I think skipping those "already used" numbers will lessen confusion.

Since Subversion is the base project, I would rather see TortoiseSVN change it's
versioning to match ours than the other way. TortoiseSVN could add an
additional version number after Subversion's, e.g. 1.7.4-tsvn1 for the first
TortoiseSVN release based on 1.7.4, 1.7.4-tsvn2 for the second, etc.

Blair
Received on 2012-04-14 21:32:02 CEST

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