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On 9/21/2021 3:12 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
On 9/21/2021 1:55 PM, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
On 2021-09-21 10:58, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
On 9/21/2021 11:29 AM, Brian Inglis wrote:
so suggest we mandate release 0 for test versions, as that would follow
naturally.
There's no need for that.
Maybe it would be a good suggestion then?
From my point of view as a maintainer, there are two main reasons I use test
releases.
1. For a package in which I'm also an upstream contributor (like Emacs or TeX
Live or Cygwin), I might want to make a test release of an upcoming upstream
release to catch bugs prior to the release. I generally use release numbers
like 0.1, 0.2,... for these.
2. If there's a new upstream release of a package that I'm less familiar with, I
just want to make a standard release, but I might not be confident that there's
no breakage on Cygwin. So I start with a test release (with release number 1),
and if no problems are reported after a few weeks I untest it, keeping the
release number unchanged.
I personally wouldn't have any use for a release number 0 in either case.
Ken
