[chef] Chef versions, was: Chef 0.10.4 Released!

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Sergio Rubio 
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 wrote:
> May I assume that the RC versioning scheme is going to continue the
> way it is right now?

Yes, because we primarily use rubygems for distributing releases. The
prerelease functionality [1] isn't well documented, but requires that
you put letters in the version for it to be a pre-release, thus
allowing it to be installed with 'gem install --pre' but not be
installed by 'gem install.'

I've written up a rough draft of some of these details:
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Release+Process

Any comments or additional questions that I could answer and document
are appreciated.

[1] 
http://rubygems.rubyforge.org/rubygems-update/Gem/Version.html#method-i-prerelease-3F