[X2go-Dev] X2go -. shorter nano release cycles

[Mike Gabriel]

hi devs,

last week Alex and I talked about shorter nano release cycles and thus  
shorter cycles of declaring code as stable.

Currently, there is no automation and mostly I urge ourselves to  
declare code as stable. Some projects are actually releasable but do  
not get released as they get forgotten (e.g. the PXE project  
x2gothinclient.git).

What Alex and I came up with and what I would like to shorly discuss  
here is a more automated, but still humanly triggered mechanism.

The version number of Git projects in X2go Git that

   (a) are usable
   (b) are not obviously broken/buggy/instable
   (c) have not been worked on for 2 weeks
   (d) have been tested (at least by me and somebody else)

will get incremented in the last digit (1.2.3.x -> 1.2.3.y) after  
these two weeks, packages will be declared as stable and provided in  
the corresponding repositories.

The shorter release intervals will allow us to keep a better track of  
the milestones within the projects we have made. I partly consider  
this as a facility of documentation (that is: documenting usable  
states of the code).

Discussion+feedback welcome,
Mike

PS:

The first release day can already be tomorrow:

   x2gothinclient
   x2goclient
   cups-x2go

A week from tomorrow:

   x2goserver
   x2gognomebindings
   x2golxdebindings
   x2goagent (bug fix release currently being prepared by Alex)
   nxcomp
   nxcompext
   nxcompshad
   nxproxy


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