releases

[Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire@seul.org>]

George writes:
 > 1) I think we should number releases incrementally so not go from 0.5.0 to 0.5.5
 > but go 1-by-1, so it'd be 0.5.1.

Although we have written a lot of new code since last august - at
least in the Dr Geo code - we have been quite lazy in term of release
or any other kind of communication, and we were stick to a 0.5.0
release since we merge. Going ahead to 0.5.5 instead if 0.5.1 was to
show that the project was quite active and alive.  I think we should
careful to release more often as people cas see progress in the project.

 > 
 > 2) Also hilaire could you announce a pending release a couple of days in
 > advance, in case there is some broken code or something that needs to be
 > fixed or other issues with a release.

Yes, your are totally right, let say two days. So anyone leading one of
the main part of Dr Genius can propose for a release when she/he has
achieved a notable improvement and if no complain in two days I
publish the next release.



 > 3) Why are the files always ending with -current instead of the version
 > number.  I think it confuses people.  make distcheck already gives you a nice
 > filename why not use that and only make a soft link on the site to the newest
 > one with current.  Also there should be a way to download older releases.
 > Sometimes people can find bugs by looking at older releases to see when they
 > were introduced or people can revert to older versions if new versions are
 > broken.

ok, I don't know how far we should go with older release ? one ? Two ? All ?

Hilaire