[Pkg-giraffe-discuss] Kopano Webapp plugins versioning

[Roel van Meer]

Jan Engelhardt writes:

> > The spellchecker plugin, for example, has one version tag (v2.0.0) on the
> > initial commit from 2016. The version of the Kopano-built Buster package is
> > 2.0.0.23+40.1, which seems to be the latest version tag plus the number of
> > commits since that version. However, that makes it not possible to  
> determine
> > the last released version by looking at the Git repo alone.
>
> It does if you know that the tag offset is always taken on the first parents
> of merges. (That does not make it easy, but it makes it deterministic at
> least.)

Sorry, I don't follow. Yes, it means that it is possible to determine the  
commit that was used for 2.0.0.23, but it doesn't mean I can see in the Git  
repo which commit was used for the latest release. Or am I missing something  
here?

Thanks,

Roel

> > Felix, since you're the Release Manager, maybe you can share some wise  
> words
> > about this?
>
> Looks to me like there was no release since 23 commits.