We reserve the patch version number for when we want to issue a fix for a security vulnerability or address a critical bug. We did that with 1.1.1 and 1.2.1.
I think the release schedule and SemVer are separate topics. AFAICT this proposal is just about putting a more deterministic schedule around what we are already doing / have been doing. Given that releases have significant overhead, I think it makes sense to plan ahead. If you want to know more about that ask Naba, the last release manager :-) Anthony > On Oct 8, 2018, at 2:42 PM, Udo Kohlmeyer <u...@apache.org> wrote: > > -0 > > It seems we have completely disregarded the *patch* version number. Does this > mean Geode versions will be *major*,*minor*? Can we then remove the *patch* > version on the release version? > > In addition to this, should the test coverage not be sufficient enough to > allow "release when green"? I must agree with @Jacob, I would prefer > something a lot less formalized. If the community has contributed a > significant fix, should that not warrant an ad-hoc patch release? Or what if > the community has added functionality, that could "fill" a single minor > release by itself, should that not warrant a pre-emptive release. > > All these questions are not enough to warrant this effort to be blocked, but > I prefer those use cases to be considered for a more comprehensive > documentation effort, than what is currently on the wiki. > > In addition to that, is a release with only bug fixes in it, really still a > worthy of minor release number, or does it not count as a patch release? > > --Udo > > > On 10/8/18 14:27, Jacob Barrett wrote: >> +0 >> >> My preference is to release when there is something worth releasing rather >> than arbitrary points in time but I don't hold that preference strongly >> enough to spike this effort. >> >> On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 2:24 PM Alexander Murmann <amurm...@pivotal.io> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> As discussed in "Predictable minor release cadence", I'd like us to find >>> agreement on releasing a new minor version every three months. There are >>> more details in the other thread and I should have captured everything >>> relevant on the wiki: >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GEODE/Release+Schedule >>> >>> There are also some discussions about patch releases. Let's please focus >>> this vote on the proposed minor release schedule and carry on other >>> discussions in the [DISCUSS] thread. >>> >>> Thank you all! >>> >
