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Posted to dev@creadur.apache.org by "P. Ottlinger" <po...@apache.org> on 2025/10/07 10:09:15 UTC
RFC: Upcoming release of 0.17 / version numbering afterwards
Hi,
as we are about to start releasing 0.17 of RAT I wanted to gather your
opinions about the time afterwards.
Many people requested:
* semantic versioning (1.2.3 - https://semver.org/)
* start of a 1.0-release as the license scanner is widely used among ASF
projects
Would you be fine if I just change 0.18 to 1.0.0 in Jira and adapt the
pom's accordingly during release to change to 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT after
release of 0.17?
1.0.0 would include:
-removal of deprecated stuff
-change of language level to get rid of old and unsupported components
within RAT
Any opinions?
Cheers,
Phil
Re: RFC: Upcoming release of 0.17 / version numbering afterwards
Posted by Maxim Solodovnik <so...@gmail.com>.
Hello Phil,
On Tue, 7 Oct 2025 at 17:24, P. Ottlinger <po...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Am 07.10.25 um 12:21 schrieb Maxim Solodovnik:
> >> Would you be fine if I just change 0.18 to 1.0.0 in Jira and adapt the
> >> pom's accordingly during release to change to 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT after
> >> release of 0.17?
> >>
> >
> > I would release 0.17 as 1.0.0 :)
> > This project has extremely rare releases :(
>
> 0.17 contains many changes and needs more feedback from the user base,
> therefore we want to release it as 0.17 and get ready for 1.0.0 :)
this is fair :)
But these days major version being rapidly changed (take a look at the
browser versioning for ex. :))
Lots of changes requires major version to be changed :)))
>
>
> The release cycle should be shorter as 0.17 was a major rework of RAT,
> that took quite some time.
Please don't get it as criticism, but according to for ex. this
service: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.rat/apache-rat-plugin
rat-plugin usually is released one in a year or two :)))
I would suggest to release twice a year
this will address dependencies update etc. :))
>
> HTH
> Phil
--
Best regards,
Maxim
Re: RFC: Upcoming release of 0.17 / version numbering afterwards
Posted by "P. Ottlinger" <po...@apache.org>.
Hi,
Am 07.10.25 um 12:21 schrieb Maxim Solodovnik:
>> Would you be fine if I just change 0.18 to 1.0.0 in Jira and adapt the
>> pom's accordingly during release to change to 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT after
>> release of 0.17?
>>
>
> I would release 0.17 as 1.0.0 :)
> This project has extremely rare releases :(
0.17 contains many changes and needs more feedback from the user base,
therefore we want to release it as 0.17 and get ready for 1.0.0 :)
The release cycle should be shorter as 0.17 was a major rework of RAT,
that took quite some time.
HTH
Phil
Re: RFC: Upcoming release of 0.17 / version numbering afterwards
Posted by Maxim Solodovnik <so...@gmail.com>.
Hello,
from mobile (sorry for typos ;)
On Tue, Oct 7, 2025, 17:09 P. Ottlinger <po...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as we are about to start releasing 0.17 of RAT I wanted to gather your
> opinions about the time afterwards.
>
> Many people requested:
> * semantic versioning (1.2.3 - https://semver.org/)
> * start of a 1.0-release as the license scanner is widely used among ASF
> projects
>
>
> Would you be fine if I just change 0.18 to 1.0.0 in Jira and adapt the
> pom's accordingly during release to change to 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT after
> release of 0.17?
>
I would release 0.17 as 1.0.0 :)
This project has extremely rare releases :(
> 1.0.0 would include:
> -removal of deprecated stuff
> -change of language level to get rid of old and unsupported components
> within RAT
>
> Any opinions?
>
> Cheers,
> Phil
>
>