Re: Suggested even/odd convention for the micro version numbers (like cairo)

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

> The problem I see with the proposed scheme is that we can't
> fit step (e) into it, since 2.12.2 is never in SVN.  With our
> current scheme, you can do this:
>
>   svn checkout $(url)/tags/MY_PROGRAM_2_12_2
>   make distcheck
>
> and get, in theory, exactly the tarball that's sitting on
> ftp.gnome.org.  If 2.12.2 is never in SVN, that's not going
> to be possible.

No, it would be like

pre-release bump to even micro
do release work, distcheck, re-distcheck, etc
commit
tag
release
post-release bump to odd micro