[ckan-dev] Version numbers on master

[Rufus Pollock]

Surely, in general we should *never* be merging release branches into
master. It should either be cherry-picking or the other way round.
Merging from a release branch into master suggests workflow isn't
quite right ;-)

Rufus

On 24 April 2012 13:07, Adrià Mercader <adria.mercader at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just a little heads up for those who merge a release branch into
> master. There are a couple of files that need to be manually edited
> after the merge, because they have version numbers on them:
>
> https://github.com/okfn/ckan/blob/master/ckan/__init__.py
> https://github.com/okfn/ckan/blob/master/pip-requirements.txt
>
>
> It's no big deal, but it may affect a couple of things:
>
> * The version number on ckan/__init__.py appears in the "Powered by"
> link, so for instance http://thedatahub.org/ shows 1.6.1b
> I'm not sure if we should have a version number in master at all,
> maybe 'master' or 'latest' will make clearer that this is the latest
> development version. If you prefer a number, it should be the next
> major release + 'a' (eg '1.8a'). What do you guys think?
>
> * The docs on http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/ are pulled from the
> branch pointed in pip-requirements.txt, so right now they are built
> from the 1.6.1 release branch. I suggest that when on the master
> branch, we always use 'master' as branch, so the latest docs are built
> from master.
>
>
> Also, what do you think of having a notice in the docs homepage saying
> which version you are looking at? We get quite a few confused users
> looking at the wrong version of the docs.
>
> http://i.imgur.com/bj3Cy.png
>
> The new theme for the docs does not include links to previous
> versions, so I we'd probably need to point to the hovering ones that
> Read the docs adds (not shown on the screenshot, see
> http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/index.html)
>
>
>
> Adrià
>
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