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

[Christian Engwer]

Dear all,

I agree with Jö, for the user it is much clearer if we keep the scheme
over all modules. What would happen after the 2.5.2 release? If we
skip dune-istl and release a maintainance release for dune-istl and
dune-geometry afterwards, would it then be common 2.5.2, geometry
2.5.3 and istl 2.5.2? This sounds like a source of big confusion to
me.

Ciao
Christian


On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 05:52:10PM +0200, Jorrit Fahlke wrote:
> 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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