Re: Alpha releases: How to tag

On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:44:32AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> > Does it need a version number change? Maybe just a tag (no branch)
> > is all that is required.
> 
> I think that we do want the alpha releases to identify themselves as
> such.  And we want a marker in CVS as to what state the alpha
> release corresponds to.  Peter's label-and-undo approach seems like
> a kluge;

Right.

> and it doesn't scale to consider the possibility that we might want
> to re-release an alpha after fixing some particularly evil bug.  A
> tag without a branch won't handle that either.

Is this a use case?  I truly hope nobody will try using a beta, let
alone an alpha, in production.  Do we need to provide for such a
possibility?  I don't recall that we've ever back-patched a beta, or
even a release candidate.

Cheers,
David.
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