Re: Changing version scheme for the evolution projects

Michael Catanzaro <[email protected]> Fri, 16 Sep 2022 08:41:13 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnome.desktop
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On Fri, Sep 16 2022 at 07:41:10 AM +0200, Milan Crha via 
desktop-devel-list <[email protected]> wrote:
>     3.47.0.90 ... GNOME's .alpha
>     3.47.0.91 ... GNOME's .beta
>     3.47.0.92 ... GNOME's .rc
>               ... here's a gap for urgent development releases up to 
> .99
>     3.47.1    ... GNOME's .0, aka the first stable release

Well you *can* use whatever version scheme you want, but that doesn't 
mean it's a good idea. Even/odd versioning was very confusing for 
packagers and I'm glad you're phasing it out, but doing something 
different from the rest of GNOME is inherently confusing.

In contrast, everyone knows how to handle alpha/beta/rc and knows what 
they mean. Just use tildes instead of periods in the appstream metadata 
(43~alpha, etc.)

Michael