Re: [RFC] Releasing automake 1.11.2

[Stefano Lattarini]

Hi Eric.

On Wednesday 07 December 2011, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 12/07/2011 12:51 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> > References:
> >  <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2011-10/msg00006.html>
> >  <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10026>
> > 
> > At this point I think we are ready to release a beta version of 1.11.2,
> > and then ask for help on platform-testers to smoke out some more bugs
> > on "exotic" platforms before the stable release.
> > 
> > Since the current version number for automake in branch-1.11 is `1.11.1a',
> > I *think* that running `make git-release' from a freshly bootstrapped
> > branch-1.11 (all while following the directions given in the HACKING file,
> > obviously) should be enough to create *and release* the beta.
> 
> I think the beta numbering scheme used in automake in the past was odd
> letters (aceg...) for devel snapshots, and even letters (bdfh...) for
> betas.  That is, if you aren't ready for 1.11.2, then the beta would be
> named 1.11.1b.
>
Well, technically this "beta" is in truth more of a developer snapshot,
since it is meant mostly for testing by readers of platform-testers ...

> But never having done an automake release myself, I can't say that for
> certain.  At any rate, as long as your result is monotonically
> increasing (larger than the last release, and smaller than the planned
> 1.11.2), we should be okay.
> 
Good.  Also, after this release, I'd like to modify automake's configure.ac
to have it the value $(VERSION) auto-generated from the SHA1 hash of the
most recent commit (similarly to what at least autoconf and coreutils do).
So all these issues will become moot in the future.

Thanks,
  Stefano