[maemo-community] [Bugsquad] Bugzilla Version scheme

[From: Andre Klapper]

Am Dienstag, den 30.09.2008, 11:04 +0100 schrieb Andrew Flegg:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Andre Klapper <aklapper at openismus.com> wrote:
> > Hence my current proposal is to use a long (but less error-prone)
> > Version and Target Milestone string like "4.1-2 (4.2008.36-5)" instead
> > of current "4.1.2" (note the hyphen instead of the dot), but I wonder if
> > that brings up other problems if Nokia decides to also provide flash
> > images (and introduce their own versioning scheme for theme, like "4.2")
> > in addition to SSU updates.
> 
> Is it easy to rename versions? Perhaps it should be "<latest
> version>+1", i.e. the next version is known, in Bugzilla, as "4.1.1+1"
> until it's released; then it is renamed to the appropriate version
> (say 4.1.2). The next iteration would then be "4.1.2+1".

I've been using "4.1+" for the next, not yet published update, and I'm
going to keep this. Renaming isn't fun, but it's okay (less than 10
minutes).

And I wanted to avoid having four levels of numbers - I already see
enough average reporters mixing up 2.2.x and 2.22.x in GNOME Bugzilla so
I have bad experiences the more complex it gets.

I ended up with adding the exact software release name for the Diablo
series to make things clear. So e.g. "4.1.2" has now become "4.1.2
(4.2008.36-5)". I think it's a good compromise.

andre
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Andre Klapper (maemo.org bugmaster)