[chef-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: chef-server versioning

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

Anyone that wrote scripts assuming even-odd versioning is now broken. The 
versioning policy is effectively an interface and this is a 
backwards-incompatible change. At a minimum I would have liked to see a bump 
to 11.1 to signify that the version policy is being changed.

--Noah

On Mar 19, 2014, at 12:02 PM, Stephen Delano 
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> Hi Noah,
> 
> Can you explain how this would be a breaking change?
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Noah Kantrowitz 
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>  wrote:
> In the future, this kind of thing really needs to go in release 
> announcements and change logs, and is itself potentially a breaking change.
> 
> --Noah
> 
> On Mar 19, 2014, at 8:27 AM, Daniel DeLeo 
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>  wrote:
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> > The server team decided to abandon “dev-odd” versioning. When 
> > Chef/then-Opscode originally adopted dev-odd, Chef was a ruby-only 
> > project, distributed as a rubygem, and rubygems did not yet support 
> > prerelease versions. Those things have changed and our tooling (omnibus) 
> > produces packages with extra version fields to indicate non-release 
> > builds.
> >
> > --
> > Daniel DeLeo
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 at 4:28 AM, Barthélemy Vessemont wrote:
> >
> >> even versions are release version.
> >> odd versions are dev version, and never should be released.
> >>
> >> That's why cookbook's version jump 2 by 2.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 2:09 AM, JJ Asghar 
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> >>  
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> >>  wrote:
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> >>> Seth Vergo rolls a d20-1 and says hey that works?
> >>> </joke>
> >>>
> >>> -
> >>> - JJ Asghar
> >>>
> >>>> On Mar 18, 2014, at 19:43, "Noah Kantrowitz" 
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> >>>>  
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> >>>>  wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Is there a reason the versions for chef-server go 11.0.0, 11.0.2, 
> >>>> 11.0.4, 11.0.6, 11.0.8, 11.0.10, 11.0.11?
> >>>>
> >>>> --Noah
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Barthélemy Vessemont - 
> >> 
 
> >>  
> >> (mailto:
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> >> Ingénieur en informatique diplômé de l'UTC (Compiègne)
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> >
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> -- 
> Stephen Delano
> Software Development Engineer
> Opscode, Inc.
> 1008 Western Avenue
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