Features/Dotted Activity Versions

Summary

Let activity developers release bugfix versions and do not mess them with already released new versions(e.g. bugfix for several-versions-ago release w/o breaking/confusing-users existed versioning scheme).

Owner

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Current status

• Targeted release: 0.88
• Last updated: Sun Dec 6 03:13:02 UTC 2009
• Percentage of completion: 0%

Detailed Description

In case of backwards compatibility(how <0.88 and >=0.88 users will see new version), there could be several options:

• use two separate activity.info fields for version, existed activity_version and new one with new full version.
  <0.88 user will see activity_version, and >=0.88 version from new field
  could lead to various misunderstanding e.g. whyactivity_version has one value and new_field has another one

• reuse existed activity_version field as a major part of dotted version and new field for minor part
  <0.88 user will see only activity_version and >=0.88 activity_version.new_field version
  in that case we don't break existed versioning line e.g. Browse-104 will be Browse-104(even after adding new version w/ incremented new_field value) for all sugars(but >=0.88 users will see incremented part)

• reuse existed activity_version field as a minor part of dotted version and new field for major part
  <0.88 user will see only activity_version and >=0.88 new_field.activity_version version
  also doesn't break versioning line but could confuse >=0.88 users who upgrade theirs sugar to 0.88 and will see Browse-2.105

Benefit to Sugar

Let activity developers release bugfix versions and do not mess them with already released new versions(e.g. bugfix for several-versions-ago release w/o breaking/confusing-users existed versioning scheme).

Scope

This feature could affect versioning scheme of all existed activities.

UI Design

Nothing.

How To Test

Features/Dotted Activity Versions/Testing

User Experience

If this feature is noticeable by its target audience, how will their experiences change as a result? Describe what they will see or notice.

Dependencies

Regular glucose dependencies.

Contingency Plan

None necessary, revert to previous release behaviour.

Documentation

• Activity Versioning - Dotted Scheme

Release Notes

The Sugar Release Notes inform end-users about what is new in the release. An Example is 0.84/Notes. The release notes also help users know how to deal with platform changes such as ABIs/APIs, configuration or data file formats, or upgrade concerns. If there are any such changes involved in this feature, indicate them here. You can also link to upstream documentation if it satisfies this need. This information forms the basis of the release notes edited by the release team and shipped with the release.

Comments and Discussion

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