[Bioc-devel] Newly proposed version bump plan

[Warnes, Gregory R]

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> From: bioc-devel-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:bioc-devel-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Gordon Smyth
> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 8:50 PM
> To: Seth Falcon
> Cc: bioc-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Newly proposed version bump plan
> 
> 
> At 08:00 PM 30/09/2005, bioc-devel-request at stat.math.ethz.ch wrote:
> >Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:00:27 -0700
> >From: Seth Falcon <sfalcon at fhcrc.org>
> >Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Newly proposed version bump plan
> >To: bioc-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
> >Message-ID: <m2y85fex6c.fsf at macaroni.local>
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> >
> >On 29 Sep 2005, maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch wrote:
> > > Hmm, one thing that's not been entirely clear to me:
> > >
> > > - Assume package "abc" gets version 1.2.3 (even number 
> '2') for BioC
> > >   1.7
> > > - according to the above it gets     1.3.z  (z=0 or z=1 or z=3 ?)
> > > for "devel" subsequently.
> > > - Now assume there is no change whatsoever to "abc" till 
> spring 2006
> > > when Bioc 1.8 will happen.
> > > I assume your scheme above means that "abc" will be released
> > > as "1.2.3" in BioC 1.8 and stay as 1.3.z in "devel" , right ?
> >
> >Good question.  Here's a clarifiction of what I was thinking:
> >
> >                              devel just
> >current    1.7     devel     before 1.8    1.8
> >=======    =====   =====     ==========    =======
> >1.2.4      1.4.0   1.5.0     1.5.4         1.6.0
> >1.3.4      1.4.0   1.5.0     1.5.1         1.6.0
> >1.2.4      1.4.0   1.5.0     1.5.0         1.4.0 (no changes 
> since 1.7)
> >
> >So when y get incremented for the release, we set z <- 0.  And the
> >first version number in the following devel line will also have z==0.
> >
> >A package that has z==0 in devel just before a release is unchanged
> >and won't get version bumped for the release.
> >
> > > I do hope that something very close to the above will be
> > > adopted.
> > > Thank you, Seth!
> >
> >Thanks for the feedback.  So far I haven't received complaints, which
> >may mean package maintainers aren't reading their mail ;-)
> >
> >+ seth

I'm also OK with this plan.

-G
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