Re: [Xen-devel] (release) versioning

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 06.05.15 at 12:37, <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 06/05/15 08:25, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 06.05.15 at 09:21, <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> One exceptional situation is that we had 4.1.6 and 4.1.6.1. I don't
>>> expect that to happen very often, but we do make mistakes in the release
>>> process and figure out we need to release a slightly updated version.
>>> How does this fit into the proposed scheme?
>> 
>> I think we would just attach a .1 to the previous version the same
>> way we did there, i.e. 5.2.0.1.
> 
> What happens if this minor fixup itself needs a micro fixup?  Do we then
> have 5.2.0.1.1? etc. etc.

No, that would (naturally I would say) become 5.2.0.2.

> Why not always bump the minor version regardless of how small the change
> was?

That's certainly an option, but we chose the other route on the one
occasion when we needed it.

> (I would also like the bike shed in purple with yellow stripes).

Of course.

Jan


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