Semantic Versioning

A good software piece must have seamless integration of coupling packages and this relates to package dependency management. To manage it properly, a consistent semantic version system is required.

However, specific platforms (like Python, Java, Ruby, PHP, etc. ) have different ways of managing and comparing versions provided by packaging tools. This documentation is used to have rules how to use semantic version for Teracy’s software more easily and consistently.

There are tons of different version schemas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_versioning. At Teracy, the Base semantic version system MUST be extended from http://semver.org/. The current latest version: http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html.

Note

• Never increase software version just for marketing, please be semantic!

• Take into account the way http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ works to see

  how semantic version should be applied to production services like.

See related link: http://datasift.github.io/gitflow/Versioning.html.

Base

1. Requirements

• Must be compatible with http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html
• All time for meta data must be GMT+0.

2. Specifications

1. Schema:

Format:

version ::= major'.'minor'.'patch('-'prerelease)?('+'metadata)?
major ::= digit+
minor ::= digit+
patch ::= digit+
prerelease ::= identifier('.'identifier)+
metadata ::= identifier('.'identifier)+
identifier ::= (alpha|digit|'-')
digit ::= [0..9]
alpha ::= [a..zA..Z]

2. Prerelease tags:

• @ - “dev” means snapshot version of a in-development branch, where all features must be worked. When all intended features are complete, move on releasing “a” version.
• a - “alpha” means features completed but its usage is not stable enough, still major bugs are expected. Continue refactoring to reach better software quality and stability.
• b - “beta” means features completed, only minor bugs are expected. Avoid refactoring here, just fix bugs.
• c - “rc” means all minor bugs are fixed, the software works stably, and the code will be released unless there is a last minute bug found after test campaigns.

3. Example:

• Snapshot version: 0.1.0-@
• Precedence: 0.1.0-@ < 0.1.0-a < 0.1.0-a1 < 0.1.0-a2 < 0.1.0-b < 0.1.0-c < 0.1.0 < 1.0.0

4. Continuous build metadata

   //TODO(hoatle): specify this

Python

1. Requirements

• Must extends Base
• Must be compatible with https://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/setuptools.html#specifying-your-project-s-version

• Future take note: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/ and

  http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0426/

2. Specifications

1. Schema

Format:

version ::= major'.'minor'.'patch('-'prerelease)?('-'postrelease)?
major ::= digit+
minor ::= digit+
patch ::= digit+
prerelease ::= identifier('-'identifier)+
postrelease ::= identifier('-'identifier)+
identifier ::= (alpha|digit|'-')
digit ::= [0..9]
alpha ::= [a..zA..Z]

2. Prerelease tags

• The Same as Base.

3. Example

• Snapshot version: 0.1.0-dev0
• Precedence: 0.1.0-dev0 < 0.1.0-dev-20130826.174530 < 0.1.0-a-dev0 < 0.1.0-a < 0.1.0-a1 < 0.1.0-a2 < 0.1.0-b < 0.1.0-c < 0.1.0 < 1.0.0

4. Continuous build metadata

Format:

version ::= major'.'minor'.'patch('-'prerelese)?'-dev-'YYYYMMDD.hhmmss('-'buildnumber)?
buildnumber ::= digit+

• Precedence: 0.1.0-dev0 < 0.1.0-dev-20150826 < 0.1.0-dev-20150826.101010 < 0.1.0-dev-20150826.101010-5 < 0.1.0-a-dev < 0.1.0-a-dev-20150926.101010

Note

• The format here learns from maven snapshot build to make it consistent.
• There is a nightly build provided by setuptools but it does not do what we want here.

5. Jenkins rules

• Always set developing branch with: -dev0 affix.
• Snapshot build: replace -dev0 with -dev-YYYYMMDD.hhmmss-buildnumber.

For example: 0.1.0-dev-20130914.101010-15.

• Staging build when there is no -dev0 affix, add -YYYYMMDD.hhmmss-buildnumber.

For example: 0.1.0-20130915-102030-2

Note

• setuptools considers this as ‘post-release’
• pip considers this as ‘pre-release’.

We must specify the right staging version for pip to install.

This should be improved, expected that pip install -i http://pypi.teracy.org/teracy/public-staging/+simple/ package-name should install the latest staging version of a specified package name.

• Final release includes only final version, for example: 0.1.0, 0.2.0-a, 1.0.0.

Java

1. Requirements

1. Must extends Base
2. Must be compatible with Maven version plugin

• http://maven.apache.org/ref/3.1.0/maven-artifact/xref/org/apache/maven/artifact/versioning/DefaultArtifactVersion.html
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Versioning

3. Must be compatible with http://www.osgi.org/download/r5/osgi.core-5.0.0.pdf on the Version part.
4. Note:

• https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/scala-internals/Xtm3-TciwNg
• https://github.com/paulp/version-investigator
• https://github.com/ngrobisa/artifactory-plugin/blob/3f5d791d2c18620142539d53f700fa8757fa6be1/src/main/java/org/jfrog/hudson/util/GenericArtifactVersion.java

2. Specifications

1. Schema

Format:

version ::= major'.'minor'.'path('-'prerelease)('-'postrelease)?
major ::= digit+
minor ::= digit+
patch ::= digit+
prerelease ::= identifier('-'identifier)+
postrelease ::= identifier('-'identifier)+
identifier ::= (alpha|digit|'-')
digit ::= [0..9]
alpha ::= [a..zA..Z]

2. Prerelease tags

• Same as Base.

3. Example

• Snapshot version: 0.1.0-SNAPSHOT
• Precedence: 0.1.0-SNAPSHOT < 0.1.0-20130826.174530-1 < 0.1.0-a-SNAPSHOT < 0.1.0-a-20130827.123421-5 < 0.1.0-a < 0.1.0-a1 < 0.1.0-a2 < 0.1.0-b < 0.1.0-c < 0.1.0 < 1.0.0

4. Continuous build metadata

Format:

version ::= major'.'minor'.'patch('-'prerelease)?-YYYYMMDD.hhmmss('-'buildnumber)?
buildnumber ::= digit+

• Precedence: 0.1.0-SNAPSHOT < 0.1.0-20150826 < 0.1.0-20150826.101010 < 0.1.0-20150826.101010-5 < 0.1.0-a-SNAPSHOT < 0.1.0-a-20150926.101010 < 0.1.0

Ruby

//TODO(hoatle): specify this

PHP

//TODO(hoatle): specify this