[Opensim-dev] Proposal: Light-weight Release Cycle

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Stefan Andersson wrote:
> Good point. I actually considered introducing this kind of scheme in the 
> VersionInfo field, but got vexed by the
>  
> "Keep to 27 chars"
>  
> comment.
>  
> Anybody knows about that? Why 27? Would less be critical? More?

Many is the time I looked at this and wondered myself.  I actually suspect it's done like that in order to fit in 
another string (or have another string fitted in it) later on.  So I don't think that it has anything to do with viewer 
expectations though I never got round to testing that theory out.

> 
> If we can manage it reasonably, I would like to introduce an Enum just 
> tagging release-type to that string.
>  
> Other than that, the revision number should be in there.
> 
> Best regards,
> Stefan Andersson
> Tribal Media AB
> 
> 
> 
>  
>  > Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:11:56 -0400
>  > From: coyle+opensim at knifejaw.com
>  > To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
>  > Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Proposal: Light-weight Release Cycle
>  >
>  > On 2009-03-11 07:49:46 -0400, stefan at tribalmedia.se wrote:
>  > > 7) The "-release" tag is branched to a "-post-fixes" branch for 
> continued
>  > > service awaiting the next cycle.
>  >
>  > May I request that anything committed to -post-fixes after branching
>  > result in an incremented tag (0.6.4.1-release or 0.6.4a-release or
>  > something) & accompanying change in VersionInfo.cs? Otherwise one
>  > has no way of knowing whether someone is running the tagged release
>  > or one of the versions that came out of the -post-fixes branch. There
>  > was a lot of confusion in #opensim with 0.6.3 because changes were
>  > committed to the -post-fixes branch but the versions both before and
>  > after the commit were referred to as "0.6.3".
>  >
>  > Thanks.
>  >
>  > -Coyle
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