Subject: bug#13578: [IMPORTANT] A new versioning scheme for automake releases, and a new branching scheme for the Git repository

From: Diego Elio Pettenò <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:00:34 +0100

On 11/02/2013 15:54, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> But what if we want to have multiple betas for, say, Automake 1.14?  Today,
> we can just have 1.13b, 1.13d, 1.13f, ...; how can we do so with the scheme
> you are proposing?

Given that 1.12.0 was "not really final release", and 1.13.0 _and_ .1
were "not really final releases", I would suggest calling the first beta
as 1.14.0 with the big fat warning, then everybody's satisfied (no
missing features, for instance), it rolls as 1.14.4 (say) "really final
release".

This should be more or less equivalent to Apache's versioning, and leads
to decency, I'd say.

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