Re: [Plplot-devel] Time to bump version to 5.9.3 in svn?

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2009-04-30 09:23-0600 Orion Poplawski wrote:

> Time to bump version to 5.9.3 in svn?

Good question.

Normally, all version bumps (overall release version, library version
numbers, etc.) occur as part of the release process (see
README.Release_Manager_Cookbook). So the overall version bump to 5.9.3
should happen (according to Hazen's recent post) on Sunday.

However, README.Release_Manager_Cookbook simply codifies the procedure we
have used in the past, and I certainly think there is room for improvement
since the current version number (5.9.2) in svn is not correct, but changing
it to 5.9.3 would not be correct either until the release.  One way to solve
this issue is just after a release change the overall release version to
something intermediate between the release number that was just done and the
next release number to indicate we are preparing for the next release but we
are not there yet.  I am leaning toward something non-specific but still
indicative that we are in the development stage between two releases such as
"5.9.2+", but I am open to other suggestions as well.

Andrew (as Debian packager) and Hazen (as PLplot release manager), what do
you think is the best thing to do here?

Alan
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