[Gt-eos] ready to tag
Mischa Salle
msalle at nikhef.nl
Mon Nov 5 10:19:31 CET 2018
Hi all,
I think 6.2 is fine.
Mischa
On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 02:31:48PM +0000, End of Support of Globus Toolkit wrote:
> Mattias,
>
> Thanks for pinging this thread. I vote 6.2.
>
> - Brian
>
> On 11/2/18 8:07 AM, Frank Scheiner via Gt-eos wrote:
> Hi Mattias, all,
>
> On 11/2/18 12:50, Mattias Ellert via Gt-eos wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Can we come to some kind of decision? I would like to package the
> changes made to the sources since the last tag, and the way it is set
> up now source tarballs are not created unless there is a tag. If it
> drags out for a long time I could make package updates using patches,
> but I think we can avoid that.
>
> Regarding the toolkit version number: It should be 6.something -
> otherwise the https://repo.gridcf.org/gct6/sources/ address no longer
> makes sense and we would have to do quite a lot of changes.
>
> The number 6.0 appears in a few places in the packaging files, so if we
> stick to that no changes are needed. If we choose 6.1 or 6.2, a few
> changes are needed, but it would be manageable (those changes should be
> done before tagging though).
>
> I'm ok with both 6.0 and 6.2. But my preference would be 6.2 actually, although we could still postpone 6.2 until after end of 2018 and stay with 6.0 for now.
>
> So your decision.
>
> Cheers,
> Frank
>
>
> Mattias
>
> mån 2018-10-22 klockan 10:12 -0500 skrev Mátyás Selmeci via Gt-eos:
> Hi Mischa and folks,
>
> I _really_ do not want to go backwards in versions. I'm sure people
> have scripts that check for $GLOBUS_VERSION and do one thing if it's
> = 6.0 and another if it's < 6.0. I don't want to mess up those scripts.
>
> We don't have to worry about conflicting with a Globus 6.1 or 6.2
> release because:
>
> 1. We've been updating our repo to keep up with their repo. If they
> make a 6.2, then our 6.2 will incorporate their changes.
>
> 2. They've been on 6.0 since _2014_. They haven't bumped the version
> even when they added features. Now they're in bugfix-only mode so
> they won't be adding features either.
>
> 3. We can ask the Globus developers if they're OK with us calling our
> version 6.2.
>
> Thanks,
> -Mat
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Mischa Salle
> Sent: Sun, Oct 21, 2018 4:04 AM CDT
> Subject: [Gt-eos] ready to tag
>
> Hi all,
>
> We have a few options each with pros and cons:
> - 6.1 is logical, but used to indicate development version (see
> http://toolkit.globus.org/toolkit/downloads/
> We don't have to keep to that schema (Linux kernel also dropped it),
> but it could be confusing.
> - 6.2 is then more logical, but both still have the problem that there
> is indeed a small chance that Globus will still release something, a
> final release or so (although I very much doubt that). OTOH, we're
> called gct, not globus_toolkit, so I personally think 6.something
> should be fine.
> - 1.0 has none of the above problems, we can also decide then to
> continue with 1.1 as the next stable (minor)release. Problem is that
> we have already a gct-6.0.1536386276 as a prerelease.
> Ideally I think Globus shouldn't have been using 6.0.XXXX as a
> prerelease but something like 6.0.0-XXXX, which works better with a sort
> and is consistent with typical debian and rpm numbering.
>
> I think I personally would prefer to move to a gct-1.0.0 combined from
> now on with 1.0.0-$(date +%s) for the development releases.
>
> Cheers,
> Mischa
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 06:13:16PM +0200, End of Support of Globus
> Toolkit wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Now that Mattias has made EPEL and Debian packages from the current
> builds, I think we're finally ready to tag a release. Does anybody have
> an objection to the version 6.0.1? I'd like to keep the "6.0" for now to
> emphasize that we're still compatible with that version of the Globus
> Toolkit.
>
> Will there be a Globus 6.1 or 7.0 at some point, that some of our customers
> could be exposed to? If so, it would lead to confusion sooner or later.
>
> Should we better start our releases with 1.0.0 instead and mention desired
> compatibility details in the release notes?
>
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 11:34:27AM -0500, End of Support of Globus
> Toolkit wrote:
> Sorry, looks like we might not be able to use 6.0.1 because the "micro"
> version number is actually the timestamp of the latest commit, which
> gets added to the version of the "gct" tarball.
>
> The version "6.0" gets embedded in several places in the code, most
> notably as the GLOBUS_VERSION environment variable and the script
> "/usr/bin/globus-version", so we'll have to try out 6.1 first to make
> sure it doesn't cause any problems.
>
> -Mat
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Mátyás Selmeci
> Sent: Fri, Oct 19, 2018 10:53 AM CDT
> Subject: ready to tag
>
> Hi all,
>
> Now that Mattias has made EPEL and Debian packages from the current
> builds, I think we're finally ready to tag a release. Does anybody have
> an objection to the version 6.0.1? I'd like to keep the "6.0" for now to
> emphasize that we're still compatible with that version of the Globus
> Toolkit.
>
> Thanks,
> -Mat
>
>
>
>
>
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