[Techteam] Adding a "Next release" milestone in trac

[Eben Eliason]

I'm not suggesting changes to the release naming at all.  I'm arguing
that a ticket slated for 8.1.1 should be in milestone 8.1.x and have a
tag identifying it specifically as "8.1.1"

The point is that 8.2.0 (for instance) is a major release milestone,
but we will be supporting these releases for a full year, during which
we'll no doubt have 8.2.1 through 8.2.4 (or more).  I'm suggesting
that we name the milestone 8.2.x (omitting the minor release number,
but alluding to it with the variable) such that we don't have to add a
bunch of bugfix milestones in the future, and can instead use the
tagging schema proposed previously to shuffle tickets around within a
major release milestone.

Then, after a full year has passed and 8.2(.x) reaches EOL, we can
easily call up any tickets at all in the 8.2.x milestone, move them
forward to 9.1.x or drop them, and then remove the 8.2.x milestone
completely.

-  Eben


On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Kim Quirk <kim at laptop.org> wrote:
> Sorry Eben... I didn't mean to reject your suggestion; I guess I don't
> quite understand it.
>
> We rename the major releases to 8.2 and 9.1, and what do we do with
> the features and bug fixes for 8.1.1?
>
> Kim
>
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Eben Eliason <eben.eliason at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does this mean that my suggestion to generalize to 8.2.x and 9.1.x
>> etc. was rejected?  I still feel that this could be more useful,
>> because it would map the milestones to the EOL policy for releases.
>> That is, anything in the 8.2.x milestone will be dropped when we hit
>> 9.2.0, etc.  And, as mentioned before, this would allow the least
>> significant version number to be managed with the tagging scheme;
>> otherwise we'll have to deal with the messiness of adding point
>> release milestones on the fly...
>>
>> Can we rename the current 8.2.0 to 8.2 (or 8.2.x) and 9.1.0  to 9.1
>> (or 9.1.x) instead?
>>
>> - Eben
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Kim Quirk <kim at laptop.org> wrote:
>>> New milestone created.
>>> Kim
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 03:38:25AM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Eben Eliason <eben.eliason at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Make sense. Wonder why Michael has been using the rel- prefix?
>>>>
>>>> I attached the 'rel-' prefix because I think it very likely that we're
>>>> going to invent other tags involving release numbers.
>>>>
>>>>> I agree, I think we should just get rid of update.x.
>>>>
>>>> This has been the plan since the last nomenclature switch.
>>>>
>>>> Michael
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