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authorRobert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>2009-12-15 14:33:35 +0100
committerSascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>2009-12-15 14:33:35 +0100
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+Release Strategy
+----------------
+
+Barebox is developed with git. From time to time, tarball releases are
+branched from the repository and released on the project web site. Here
+are the release rules:
+
+- Releases follow a time based scheme:
+
+ barebox-xxxx.yy.z.tar.bz2
+ ^^^^ ^^ ^----------- Bugfix Number, starting at 0
+ \ \------------- Month
+ \---------------- Year
+
+ Example: barebox-2009.12.0.tar.bz2
+
+- Releases are made around the beginning of the month. As we are aiming
+ for monthly releases, development is considered to be a continuous
+ process. If you find bugs in one release, you have the chance to get
+ patches in on a very short time scale.
+
+- Usually, there are no bugfix releases, so z=0. If there is a need
+ to make a bugfix release, z is the right place to increment.
+
+- If there may be a reason for pre releases, they are called
+
+ barebox-xxxx.yy.z-pren.tar.bz
+ ^------ Number of prerelease, starting with 1
+
+ Example: barebox-2009.12.0-pre1.tar.bz2
+
+ We think that there is no need for pre releases, but if it's ever
+ necessary, this is the scheme we follow.
+
+- Only the monthly releases are archived on the web site. The tarballs
+ are located in http://www.barebox.org/download/ and this location
+ does never change, in order to make life easier for distribution
+ people.
+