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'All-platform' P2P client based on eMule
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Proprer semver release tags #229

Open ylabidi opened 3 years ago

ylabidi commented 3 years ago

Is there a possibility to work on proper versioning and release tags ? The last tag dates back to 2016 and it would help much upstream distros to have a regular release schedule.

sc0w commented 3 years ago

@gonosztopi

I think when a version is released, is a good practice to make new branch with that, and cherrypick bugfixes from master to that branch

I propose for example, next stable version as 2.4.0, and bugfixes can be released inside stable version as 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.3 ...

and next stable versions 2.5.0, 2.6.0, 2.7.0 ... ...

anyway I think the next version can be done as 3.0.0 because it works with gtk3

ylabidi commented 3 years ago

I think it's easier to consider the master branch as the de facto production branch and work with a PR-based workflow to introduce new development. And every time a new release is to be cut, the master branch would be tagged and github will automatically produce a tarball for that tag. Which makes it a lot easier for downstream distros to manage packaging on their end.