[Dovecot] pigeonhole: naming and versioning

Stephan Bosch stephan at rename-it.nl
Thu Apr 8 13:09:27 EEST 2010


Axel Thimm wrote:
> As a (downstream) packager I have some questions:
> 
> a) pigeonhole is called a working title - will the final release
>    be called something else like dovecot-sieve again?

Well, I was a bit uncertain about the name. People who don't know what a 
pigeonhole is or what the verb means (especially the Dutch), sometimes 
have `interesting' associations with that name. I am quite confident 
though that this name is the definitive one. I'll adjust the website 
accordingly.

> b) The versioning seems to go from 0.1.15 to 0.1.13. From a packager's
>    POV it would be better to allow a natural version upgrade
>    path. Perhaps the version in hg is just not updated?
> 
> The reason for these questions/clarifications are that Angel and I are
> packaging dovecot 2.x betas and matching sieve plugins for allowing
> more people to a broader testing before the projects go gold. We'd
> like to have proper naming and versioning in place already for the
> beta packages.
> 

The Pigeonhole project is not released for v2.0 yet, so there is no 
version for v2.0. Current plans are to call name the packages 
dovecot-2.0-pigeonhole-0.2.0. However, this versioning scheme is not 
ideal, so ideas are welcome.

Regards,

Stephan.


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