Re: Tracker (+miners) 2.1.x is the stable series for GNOME 3.30

[mcatanzaro gnome org]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 5:05 AM, Carlos Garnacho <carlosg gnome org> 
wrote:
> Hmm, I see 2 ways to make that happen:
> - As usual, bump by 1 during unstable, bump by 1 for .0. The first
> bump may make sense (depends on whether there's actual API additions,
> tending to be scarce in Tracker), but the second bump would be rather
> artificial as there'd be no API additions or substantial modifications
> at the time.
> - Bump to next even number directly, suffix versions by "-alpha.X" or
> somesuch to convey they're pre-release. (we should probably do this
> even if bumping by 1)
>
> Reading point 7 in semver.org, of these two I find the second to fit
> better as there's no minor bumps without actual changes involved, but
> it's maybe a bit late for it now. If the R-T vastly prefers to avoid
> the confusion, I have stuff in the queue I can rush this cycle to make
> a 2.2 that'd make all of us happy for now.

Without speaking for the entire release team...

Either of those possibilities would be OK, but the first seems more 
natural to me. I'd see it as a modification of semantic versioning to 
conform to the expectations of our users and distributors.

Michael