Question about version in submitting patches

[Robert Goldman]

On 27 Nov 2020, at 3:16, Mark Evenson wrote:

> I’m a little unsure of whether the “Committee for Ongoing and 
> Perpetual ASDF maintenance” (hi Robert!) wishes us to include the 
> results of “<file:bin/bump-version>” in submitted patches.
>
> I have a small ABCL-specific patch dealing with 
> UIOP:PARSE-UNIX-NAMESTRING when loading system definitions from zip 
> archives for which I have used bump-version to denote as version 
> “3.3.4.0.1”.  I’ve not quite finished my testing to ensure that 
> previous versions of ABCL work well with it, but when I do, do you 
> wish me to include the use of “bump-version” with the patch or is 
> that something the Committee prefers to do on its own?

I usually prefer to do it myself, especially since there has been some 
lag in my applying patches -- so version bumping could cause merge 
issues.

Thanks for asking!

The Committee