Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] What are the plans for future developer releases?

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:52:08 -0500
Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Hi List, hi Gerald!
> 
> As we are currently taking progress in the 1.0 stable release trunk,
> this will hopefully lead to a 1.0.0 release with raising to 1.0.1 and
> alike even numbers as bug fixes are merged from the developer trunk.
> 
> However, as more and more developer work will get "buried" in the
> subversion trunk, do we want to have anything like developer releases in
> the (near) future? I personally don't like the idea to spread several
> different SVN versions to my colleagues.
> 
> I would think these developer releases should get odd version numbers
> 1.1.0, 1.1.1, and so on.
> 
> Maybe we could get the first developer release 1.1.0, after the 0.99.0
> is out?

Sounds good.  Would anyone get bent out of shape if the developer
releases weren't as formal as the stable releases?  Making sure the
release notes, change logs, advisories, etc. are up to date takes a
significant amount of time.