[Goodies-dev] Accounts for the new release manager

[Bernhard Walle]

Jannis Pohlmann schrieb:
> 
> BTW, tarball naming schemes are a BIG F***ING MESSAGE! People, please
> stick to <project>-[0-9].[0-9].[0-9].tar.bz2 and don't use -rc1 or
> whatever. You only break sorting and you make it more difficult for
> other people to detect versions from tarballs automatically. If you
> want to release RCs for e.g. 0.6.0, just release more 0.5.x's and call
> them RCs in your announcements ...

That's also good for packagers because then the package version can
correspond to tarball version. '0.6.0-rc1' > '0.6.0', and that breaks
the automatic update.


Regards,
Bernhard