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On 6/10/20 3:23 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2020-06-10 15:11:35 +0200 (+0200), Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> On 6/9/20 12:00 PM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> [...]
>>> instead of doing a 14.0.0.0rc1 and then a 14.0.0.0rc2 that gets
>>> promoted to 14.0.0, we would produce a 14.0.0, then a 14.0.1 and
>>> just list that 14.0.1 in the release page at coordinated release
>>> time.
> [...]
>> So more or less, you're removing the mandatory release of
>> frozen-before-release artifact.
>>
>> From a downstream distribution package maintainer, I'd like to
>> voice my concern that with this scheme, it's going to be very
>> complicated to deliver the OpenStack release on-time when it gets
>> released. This also means that it will be difficult to get things
>> like puppet-openstack fixed on-time too, because they depend on
>> the packages.
>>
>> So, while I don't really mind the beta releases anymore (I don't
>> package them these days), I do strongly believe that the RC
>> releases are convenient. I don't think we need RC2, RC3, etc, but
>> having a working RC1 2 or 3 weeks before the release is really a
>> good thing which I would regret a lot if we decided not to do it
>> anymore.
> 
> I don't understand what problem you're trying to convey. The
> suggestion is basically a cosmetic change, where instead of
> 14.0.0.0rc1 (and then if necessary 14.0.0.0rc2 and so on) we'd have
> 14.0.0 (and then if necessary 14.0.1 and so on). How does that
> change your packaging process? Is the concern that you can't know in
> advance what the release version number for a given service is going
> to be?

I don't buy into the "this is only cosmetic": that's not what's going to
happen, unfortunately. Obviously, in your example, 14.0.0 will *NOT* be
considered a pre-release of the next stable. 14.0.0 will be seen as the
"final release" version, ie: the first stable version. This means that
we wont have tags for the pre-release.

If the issue is just cosmetic as you say, then let's keep rc1 as the
name for the pre-release version.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)