bug#13578: [IMPORTANT] A new versioning scheme for automake releases, and a new branching scheme for the Git repository

2013-02-12 Thread Vincent Torri
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 02/12/2013 09:25 AM, Miles Bader wrote: >> 2013/2/12 Stefano Lattarini : > But what if we want to have multiple betas for, say, Automake 1.14? > Today, > we can just have 1.13b, 1.13d, 1.13f, ...; how can we do so with th

bug#13578: [IMPORTANT] A new versioning scheme for automake releases, and a new branching scheme for the Git repository

2013-02-12 Thread Miles Bader
2013/2/12 Stefano Lattarini : > Mostly fair points; but the biggest issue with this proposal (not > sure why I didn't think of it before, sorry) is that it is not at > all clear that a version like "1.13.0.1" is supposed to be a beta > release. People will easily mistake it for a stable release.

bug#13578: [IMPORTANT] A new versioning scheme for automake releases, and a new branching scheme for the Git repository

2013-02-12 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Miles. On 02/12/2013 12:50 AM, Miles Bader wrote: > Stefano Lattarini writes: >> But what if we want to have multiple betas for, say, Automake 1.14? Today, >> we can just have 1.13b, 1.13d, 1.13f, ...; how can we do so with the scheme >> you are proposing? > > There's always 1.14.0.1, ... >