[lxc-devel] LXC 0.9.alpha1 pull request
Frederic Crozat
fcrozat at suse.com
Tue Dec 11 14:35:42 UTC 2012
Le mardi 11 décembre 2012 à 09:23 -0500, Stéphane Graber a écrit :
> On 12/11/2012 05:12 AM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> > On 12/10/2012 11:36 PM, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> >> Hi Daniel,
> >>
> >> You'll find the 0.9.alpha1 pull request below.
> >>
> >> Based on what you had to do last time in Copenhagen, I believe the
> >> following actions are to be done on your side:
> >>
> >> - Properly tag 0.8, currently we only have a commit but no matching
> >> tag, this should be fixed before pulling from staging.
> >
> > I just forgot to push the tags, it is on my local tree. I am not able to
> > push the tree right now because there is an issue on sourceforge with
> > the owners of the git tree. I opened a ticket for that.
>
> Ok, let's hope they'll fix it soon.
>
> >> - Review the pull request
> >> - Use "git pull --edit --no-ff --stat git://github.com/lxc/lxc.git",
> >> that should do a real merge, letting you do a proper Sign-off of the
> >> changes.
> >> - Update the version number to 0.9.alpha1 (the version number format
> >> is to avoid breaking RPM based distros)
> >
> > Why 0.9.alpha1 and not 0.9.0-rc1 ?
>
> So, the reason for the dotted version number is that apparently dashes
> break the rpm magic...
>
> Now as for alpha vs rc, I tend to consider rc as being feature frozen,
> which isn't quite the case with what we have in staging.
> We're still planning a bunch more API changes and config file
> reorganisation before considering it feature complete.
>
> However, you're perfectly correct that I forgot a .0 in the version
> number :)
>
> So my guess is that we'll end up doing something like:
> 0.9.0.alpha1 - December
> 0.9.0.alpha2 - February
> 0.9.0.rc1 - March
> ... as many rc as needed to fix any major issue
> 0.9.0
it will break anyway RPM, because 0.9.0 is a smaller string than
0.9.0.r1 (we can workaround that with "recent" RPM version).
I would suggest 0.8.99 instead, if you really want to go this way..
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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat at suse.com>
SUSE
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