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Open-source foundation of the user-sponsored PyMOL molecular visualization system.
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Is this repository missing some release tags? #280

Closed alerque closed 1 year ago

alerque commented 1 year ago

I'm the maintainer for the Arch Linux package. I've been having folks drop out of date flags on the package (which is at v2.5.0) saying that v2.5.4 is out, but I don't see any new tags or even commits with release info in them in this repository that could get packaged up as a specific version.

Are our users hallucinating versions that don't exist or are there tags missing from this repository or is there some other channel I should be reviewing?

JarrettSJohnson commented 1 year ago

See #50

alerque commented 1 year ago

That's officially the strangest release cadence I've seen: you are releasing new major versions as open source but holding back bug fixes that are available to paid users from the FOSS community until the next major version is cut?

Can you imagine hassle and security implications for your own project if all the FOSS things you depend on did that?

JarrettSJohnson commented 1 year ago

We don't have release cycles for open-source PyMOL. The tags are just a rough estimate to the corresponding Incentive product. This repository is just maintained and available openly. Open-source packages are not currently managed by Schrodinger. Bug fixes that affect open-source are pushed to this repository relatively immediately after we have a fix before incentive PyMOL updates. In other words, open-source users would get the bug fixes before incentive users do.

As mentioned in the attached issue, we may reconsider how this is done in the future.