Re: what is bumpversion used for?

On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 01:33:51PM +0200, Max wrote: How does it pick the next version number, i.e. how do I tell it whether to bump major/minor/patch versions? Ah, I see in "Make a new release" wiki page: make REL=minor release Personally, I find it rather trivial to pick a number, which would also allow manual version skips that we might see necessary for hypothetical reasons. As in make REL=2.0.1 release If we did this, would we still use bumpversion for other tasks? Semver validation could also be a simple regex. If it's only us needing that program to make a release that's fine dependency wise, so far I'm just probing what it is used for. It's not bumpversion that does the commit though, right. Anyway: What changes get committed during 'make release': - does it empty the TODO-RELEASE? - does it bump LIBVERSION API versions? (probably not, right?) - does it edit the debian changelog? Ah, so the signed git tag is now done automatically? Also I see on the wiki page that it may be necessary to re-tag the release after review, anyway. Maybe tagging the release should not happen automatically? I'd rather not add my official personal signature to a tag before reviewing. I also may need to pass a GPG key ID to the tagging to sign with the proper key, I guess it's simpler and less dangerous to leave it as a manual step...? What do you think? Thanks, ~N P.S.: I'm still meaning to review the release hands-on and adjust the wiki page, but I'm simply not getting all the things done that need attention at the moment :/