[Dune-devel] maintenance releases not including all core modules

[Jö Fahlke]

Am Mi,  4. Apr 2018, 17:32:08 +0200 schrieb Ansgar Burchardt:
> when preparing the DUNE 2.5.2rc1 release (to have a final release of
> DUNE 2.5 with the changes that are pending in the release branch), I
> noticed that not all modules have changes.  So I only prepared updates
> for the one that do, however the page template for releases expects all
> modules to be updated.
> 
> For now I've created symlinks (e.g. dune-geometry-2.5.2rc1.tar.gz is a
> symlink pointing to dune-geometry-2.5.1.tar.gz) so that the download
> links work.  It might be a bit confusing that extracting the archive
> will give dune-geometry-2.5.1 though even though the archive name
> suggests it to contain 2.5.2rc1 (which does not exist).
> 
> I wonder if we should either (a) extend the page template to include
> modules with different (older) versions or (b) always release all
> modules in sync even when there are no changes.  I myself would prefer
> (a).

Actually, for a release I'd go with (b), at least for the core modules.  Since
we otherwise try to stay in sync, this has way less potential for confusion.

Regards,
Jö.

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