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

[Carlos Garnacho <carlosg gnome org>]

Hey Michael :),

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 3:47 AM,  <mcatanzaro gnome org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 6:45 PM, Carlos Garnacho <carlosg gnome org> wrote:
> > I might send more reminders in the future whenever it might get
> > confusing, but changes like this within the cycle apply anytime in the
> > future too. How semver and gnome cycles will be made to fit neatly is
> > TBD, but rest assured there will be a 2.x series in time for freezes
> > and stabilized with it. 2.1.x will be it for 3.30.
>
>
> You could do semantic versioning (which has clear benefits) without odd
> minor versions (which is going to be super confusing), surely?

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.

Cheers,
  Carlos