Release process: document setting version manually
Originally created by @CyrilBrulebois on #17578 (Redmine)
As life happens, preparing for all possible use cases isn’t sufficient!
Here’s a proposal that was floated around when discussing version numbers vs. changelog entries (see also #17577 (closed)), and that I’ve confirmed to be something I’d be very much interested in:
>> IMO we should set $VERSION manually, instead of assuming the changelog
>> knows what version we're releasing.
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> I think we should be documenting that explicitly, yes.
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> 1 week, 2 use cases:
> - emergency release: need to move from 4.(n+1) to 4.n.1
> - release candidate: need to move from 4.5 to 4.5~rc1
Related issues
- Related to #17361 (closed)
Edited by Cyril 'kibi' Brulebois