[jbosstools-dev] change to have build_alias in front

Max Rydahl Andersen max.andersen at redhat.com
Thu Aug 23 23:26:54 EDT 2012


> 
>>>> I did not say *remove* the date, I said it should not be the significant decider for p2.
>>>> 
>>>> i.e. Release of a version should make any nightly/snapshot builds of that version invalid; today it does not because the data comes *before* the release type flag.
>>>> 
>>>> proper versioning that has semantic API meaning instead of just rely on what date the build was made.
>>> In trunk it is now uses release type in front of the date. It was fixed a month ago and works fine since.
>>> I uses '${BUILD_ALIAS}-v'yyyyMMdd-HHmm' for local builds and '${BUILD_ALIAS}-v'yyyyMMdd-HHmm'-H${BUILD_NUMBER}' for hudson
>> Oh - nice; that is news to me! Didn't see any notification on this ? Shouldn't we get that out since this changes things for QE/testers/bleeding edge installs
>> and bumping versions becomes that more important.
> We probably should, but I believe it is fine, because changed components should bump the version and it means bumped version in X.X.X.M1_vXXXXXXXX-XXXX-HXXX format should be higher than version in old format X.X.X.vXXXXXXXX-XXXX-HXXX-M1.

okey - but M1 is higher than Beta1 afaics so this is not clean as it stands.

Do we need to move to use Alpha's instead ? .... not too fond of that because milestone is more neutral but don't see many other options ?

/max




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