Re: [BuildStream] BuildStream Versioning & Releases

[Javier Jardón <jjardon gnome org>]

On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 at 14:11, Sander Striker via BuildStream-list
<buildstream-list gnome org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First of all Happy New Year.
>
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 11:20 AM Paul Sherwood <paul sherwood codethink co uk> wrote:
> [...]
>
> > FWIW I previously attempted to get bst releasing and versioning
> > simplified [1] and didn't get far. Just one of many examples where I and
> > colleagues failed to achieve common understanding...
> >
> > Anyway I agree with you that in an alternative universe it would have
> > been better to avoid claiming 1.x but I'm not sure how we can fix that
> > now.
>
>
> My proposal would be to stop doing 1.x releases altogether, and to wait with doing a 2.0 release until we 
> are satisfied we can give the stability guarantees that are associated with a major release.
> In the meantime we can figure out a way to do 2.0 alpha releases, or some other convenience for our early 
> adopters.

while I'm with changes in the release model, bst-1.2.x releases are
currently being used to build some FOSS projects in the open, like
freedesktop-sdk and GNOME

Last bst-1.2.x release has been done 3 months ago (5 Oct), and there
are some fixes in the bst-1.2 branch that those projects are still
waiting for

So at least I think it would be great to do a another bst-1.2.x
release before moving to the new release model

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Cheers,
Javier