{"id":5836,"date":"2020-12-28T11:08:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T15:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/?p=5836"},"modified":"2020-12-28T11:08:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T15:08:58","slug":"tsugi-release-20-12-0-new-release-numbering-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/2020\/12\/tsugi-release-20-12-0-new-release-numbering-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsugi release &#8211; 20.12.0 &#8211; new release numbering approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tsugi is intended as a continuously upgraded cloud deployment. Most of the Dr. Chuck servers have a cron job that does a <strong>git pull<\/strong> and runs <strong>upgrade.php<\/strong> *every 30 minutes*.\u00a0 You can see this infrastructure at:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/github.com\/tsugiproject\/tsugi-build\/tree\/master\/common<\/p>\n<p>As a result, there are no traditional \u201cfeature releases&#8221; of Tsugi &#8211; the common use case is to be pretty close to the tip of the main branch. Features just come out.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes, folks want to &#8220;hold back&#8221; from upgrading for a while. Perhaps they have an old version of PHP and can&#8217;t run the latest. It is always risky to hold back too long. Releases are tags &#8211; not branches.<\/p>\n<p>There is no intent to ever back-port anything in Tsugi to a prior release unless the adopting community wants to make a branch and maintain it. Dr. Chuck follows the \u201cfirst rule of Italian driving\u201d when it comes to cloud based software development.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Great Movie Lines #1 - The Gumball Rally (1976)\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fDaONrHK1f8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But to help those running Tsugi that want to hold back, a series of versions \/ tags are maintained as \u201csafe plateaus&#8221;. These tags are often snapped right before a significant upgrade or data model change and announced on the dev list.<\/p>\n<p>These versions originally were the classic geek-style \u20180.x.0\u2019 releases that pretended that we never reach 1.0 .<\/p>\n<p>As of December 2020, we are switching to a <strong>year.month.patch<\/strong> approach to Tsugi versioning, adapting from the Linux model.<\/p>\n<p>The releases will continue to be snapped at stable places, often right before significant new development is going to be merged.<\/p>\n<p>I just snapped the <strong>20.12.0<\/strong> release &#8211; because it is December and I wanted a 2020 release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tsugi is intended as a continuously upgraded cloud deployment. Most of the Dr. Chuck servers have a cron job that does a git pull and runs upgrade.php *every 30 minutes*.\u00a0 You can see this infrastructure at: https:\/\/github.com\/tsugiproject\/tsugi-build\/tree\/master\/common As a result, there are no traditional \u201cfeature releases&#8221; of Tsugi &#8211; the common use case is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5838,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836\/revisions\/5838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}