Start versioning and releasing new versions

[rpannek]

As a user it is somewhat difficult to know if the master branch is compatible with my application or if it will break my code, and which version I need to use.

It would be nice if you started releasing versions according to for example http://semver.org/

Github makes it really easy, once you create a tag and push it, it creates a special release page where you can put your release notes, etc. and it creates a tarball and a zip package for it so people who package stuff for distributions have an easier way packaging it.

[tobsan]

Hi,

This is already the plan, we will indeed use semantic versioning when doing releases, and we will use the github release system. We have in our pipeline to define a nice way of generating release notes etc, so that releasing is done simply.

[DunderRoffe]

This is now started :)

[rpannek]

Hm, I still can't see any releases https://github.com/Pelagicore/softwarecontainer/releases

[DunderRoffe]

@rpannek there are currently no releases. However, we now properly update the minor version. @breakreturn correct me if I am wrong but we are not planing to do any proper "release" before we bump major version?

[breakreturn]

Let's keep this open for now. It's not decided when we will start using the github release system.

[jeremiah]

JLR is using the GitHub release system here: https://github.com/GENIVI/rvi_lib/releases/tag/v0.1.0 Looks good.