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Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Remove SNAPSHOT from versioning and keep tags on the
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On 10/20/2014 12:33 PM, Rohit Yadav wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Background:
> 
> Whenever we start on a new release and cut its release branch, for
> example 4.5 branch, we add the -SNAPSHOT string to the version
> string in pom.xmls, debian/changelog and elsewhere. Just this mere
> action adds a divergence between release and master branches and
> between two minor releases as well. Also, we have seen build issue
> that come up just because someone forgot to add or remove -SNAPSHOT
> or .snapshot in debian/ or packaging. The other issue is
> historically we keep release tags on the release branches, by doing
> this it makes it easy to find commits and follow the git history.
> By doing a separate RC branch and then tagging on it is alright,
> you can still do a git fetch and git checkout <tag> but it break
> the historic convention.
> 
> 
> So, please share your views on the follow proposal that try to add
> simple changes:
> 
> 1. Remove -SNAPSHOT suffix (and its lower/other case variants) from
> the source code, just change to next version and keep working on
> it; we don’ have to fix build systems often.
> 
> 2. In future keep release tags on major release branch (for
> example, 4.3.0, 4.3.1 both on 4.3 branch)
> 

+1 from my side. It breaks the Debian/Ubuntu packaging quite often and
I don't see any benefit from the -SNAPSHOT versioning.


Wido

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