summary of decisions team meeting @ Samba XP

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:

> --------------------------------------------
> Kernel versioning scheme officially adopted
> --------------------------------------------
> Most people are familar with this scheme, but
> just in case
> 
>     MAJOR    3, 4, etc....
>     MINOR    even == STABLE odd == UNSTABLE
>     PATCH    patch releases with a stable
>         unstable branch
> 

You may have also noted that metze just finished some
changes so that we can identify CVS checkouts better.
When build from SVN.  We are ditching the alpha and beta
suffixes.

The new schema is

    MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH[(pre|rc)X][-SVN-build-###]

For examnple "3.0.3pre3-SVN-build-212" where 212 is the
SVN revision number.  So people don't have to refer to
checkout dates anymore.

Official snapshots and releases will continue to be
labeled as

     MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH

(e.g. "3.0.3") with the actual revision number stored
in a file in the tarball.




cheers, jerry
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