[Dune-devel] vX.Y.Z.alpha tags

[Christoph Grüninger]

Hi Andreas,

yes, that's basically it. The wait part could be rather short, if you 
would ask me.

Just adding a tag will lead to confusion for the majority of users not 
using PyPi.

Bye
Christoph

Am 25.11.21 um 23:00 schrieb Dedner, Andreas:
> What would a bugfix release require? Would it be enough to simply add 
> the v2.8.1 tag using (more or less) the current release branch - that is 
> of course fine with us. Or would we have to
> 
>   * wait for everyone to decide what should be cherry-picked and which
>     MR needs to be finished off
>   * build tarballs to upload to the website
>   * change all the dune.module files
>   * change all the module description files on the website to get an
>     updated documentation
>   * and ...
> 
> I was hoping for an easy way which would allow me to tell Python users 
> that they can simply run pip install --upgrade
> the same way I can now already tell source users on the release branches 
> to do git pull.
> Best
> Andreas
> 
> 
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> of Christoph Grüninger <foss at grueninger.de>
> *Sent:* 25 November 2021 17:22
> *To:* dune-devel at lists.dune-project.org <dune-devel at lists.dune-project.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Dune-devel] vX.Y.Z.alpha tags
> Hi Andreas,
> I would prefer to have a 2.8.1 release. Give people the chance to claim
> things that should be back-ported. Then take the 2.8 branch, and make a
> bugfix release 2.8.x. Having such bugfix releases more frequent is a
> good thing anyway.
> 
> Bye
> Christoph
> 
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