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