T10755: Unifying Applications' release versions

aacid added a comment.


  In T10755#180974 <https://phabricator.kde.org/T10755#180974>, @hein wrote:
  
  > > Sure, why would the release team bump an individual app version if it wants to follow a random scheme?
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  > For the same reason the Release Team releases the app instead of an individual person?
  
  
  I personally don't agree "updating version number if you want to keep your own scheme" is a release team responsability, but you do, it's ok to disagree :)
  
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  > 
  >> I think that's a really bad idea, now you have things go out of sync and people update the version in one place but not in another etc, etc etc
  > 
  > Isn't that just another subtask of "make sure everything uses version info from some central source"? I know Harald had a patch to make the website use AppStream for example.
  
  Right, we already have a central source then, it's the CMakeLists.txt file.
  
  I thought you meant "creating a repo with all the version numbers", which meant creating a similar problem to the one we have with the website.

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  https://phabricator.kde.org/T10755

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