[ovirt-devel] [VDSM] New versioning scheme

[Nir Soffer]

On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Dan Kenigsberg <danken at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 04, 2016 at 04:17:32PM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Nir Soffer <nsoffer at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Martin Sivak <msivak at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >>> 1. master
>> >>>
>> >>>     vdsm-4.19.0-201606011345.gitxxxyyy
>> >>
>> >> Ack and +1 to the idea, but I have one small comment. Isn't it usual
>> >> in Fedora (for example) to use the following?
>> >>
>> >> vdsm-4.19.0-0.201606011345.gitxxxyyy
>> >>
>> >> Please note the zero in the release part (-0.something). The stable is
>> >> then released as vdsm-4.19.0-1 keeping the version intact.
>> >
>> > Thanks for correcting me Martin, I omitted the release number mistake.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Martin
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Nir Soffer <nsoffer at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >>> Hi all,
>> >>>
>> >>> We are going to branch 4.0 today, and it is a good time to update our
>> >>> versioning scheme.
>> >>>
>> >>> I suggest to use the standard ovirt versioning, use by most projects:
>> >>>
>> >>> 1. master
>> >>>
>> >>>     vdsm-4.19.0-201606011345.gitxxxyyy
>> >>>
>> >>> 2. 4.0
>> >>>
>> >>>     vdsm-4.18.1
>> >>>
>> >>> The important invariant is that any build from master is considered newer
>> >>> compare with the stable builds, since master always contain all stable
>> >>> code, and new code.
>> >>>
>> >>> Second invariant, the most recent build from master is always newer compared
>> >>> with any other master build - the timestamp enforces this.
>> >>>
>> >>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Dan?
>
> Yes, it's a good idea. I'd appreciate if it is implemented in such a way
> that there is no need for an explicit commit to introduce a new version.
> Currently it's done by a mere `git tag`.
>
> But that's not a hard requirement. Feel free to have a "bump version"
> commit like most other projects out there.

I think we can keep the current way we set the version, but replace
the serial number with a timestamp.

Nir