[Bioc-devel] Newly proposed version bump plan

[Seth Falcon]

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