[meta] Create a plan for implementing semantic versioning for core
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<p><strong>This issue is a hard blocker to Drupal 8 being released! <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2267715" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#2267715: [meta] Drupal.org (websites/infra) blockers to a Drupal 8 RC1</a></span></strong></p>
<p>Reference the policy decision at <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/586146" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#586146: [policy, no patch] Decide if and how to implement semantic versioning for Drupal 8.x</a></span>, which as of 8.0 is going to change core to return to a 3-digit versioning scheme (8.0.1, 8.1.3, etc.). There's also a huge debate about doing a similar thing for contrib at <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/1612910" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#1612910: [policy, no patch] Switch to Semantic Versioning for Drupal contrib extensions (modules, themes, etc)</a></span> with no resolution in sight, so I'd rather not discuss it here. </p>
<p>This issue is to figure out what all needs to be updated Drupal.org-wise in order to support this. Here are some things off the top of my head, and there are probably others. This should be fleshed out with specific sub-issues for each part.</p>
<ol>
<li>Update Status module - tested in #42</li>
<li><del>Testbot</del>
<ul>
<li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/project_issue_file_test/issues/2268449" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#2268449: Run contrib module branch tests against both dev and latest stable core branches</a></span></li>
<li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/testbot/issues/2163683" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#2163683: PIFT/PIFT communication broken by D9 requeued patch</a></span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><del>Packaging scripts - tested in #62</del></li>
<li><del>Distro packaging - uses drush make</del></li>
<li><del>The release node validation code that prevents you creating releases against invalid tags/branches</del> - tested in #62</li>
<li><del>Release history XML feed generation - tested in #63</del></li>
<li><del>Proper display of releases on the <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal">Drupal core project page</a></del> - tested in #87</li>
<li>Proper display of The Right Core Release(tm) on prominent places where core download links are shown:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.drupal.org/download">/download</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.drupal.org/start">/start</a></li>
<li> others?</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><del><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/git_deploy">Git deploy</a> module</del> no 8.x version</li>
<li><del>Migration path for issues pointing to 8.x-dev, to point to 8.0.x-dev instead?</del></li>
<li>Localize.drupal.org</li>
<li>l10n_update and equivalent core functionality in Drupal 8</li>
<li><del>Security.drupal.org</del> doesn't care about versions</li>
</ol>
<p>When this issue is fixed (closed), remove the blocker tag and update <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2267715" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#2267715: [meta] Drupal.org (websites/infra) blockers to a Drupal 8 RC1</a></span>.</p>
<p>Version number changes:</p>
<p>- Leave everything 7.x and below alone.<br>
- Rename branch 8.x => 8.0.x<br>
- Rename release node 8.x-dev => 8.0.x-dev<br>
- Also add branch 8.1.x<br>
- Also add tags 8.0.1 and 8.1.0<br>
- Add a release node for 8.1.x branch.<br>
- Add release nodes for 8.0.0, 8.0.1, and 8.1.0.</p>
<h3>Blockers</h3>
<p><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/versioncontrol_project/issues/2227411" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#2227411: Commit backlink incorrectly appears when commit made to new branch</a></span><br>
<span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link drupalorg-gitlab-link-wrapper"><a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drupalorg/-/work_items/2173779" class="drupalorg-gitlab-link">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drupalorg/-/work_items/2173779</a></span></p>
<h3>D.o Deployment</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.drupal.org/node/2297545">Drupal.org changes for the week of 7 July to 13 July 2014</a> notes this might happen on Tuesday, 8 July, and/or Wednesday, 9 July 2014.</p>
<ul>
<li><del>Branch 8.1.x, create a release, and move issues to that version.</del></li>
<li><del>Core maintainer runs: <code>git checkout -b 8.0.x; git push origin 8.0.x</code> and all core maintainers start using 8.0.x.</del></li>
<li><del>Set 8.0.x to be the default branch at /node/3060/edit/default-branch</del></li>
<li><del>Create a dev release node for 8.0.x.</del></li>
<li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/project_issue_file_review/issues/2296183" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#2296183: Update PIFR_DRUPAL8_CURRENTSTABLEBRANCH to 8.0.x, when it exists</a></span></li>
<li>Move 8.x issues to 8.0.x:<br>
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<pre><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br>$query </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">EntityFieldQuery</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$query</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">entityCondition</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'entity_type'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'node'</span><span style="color: #007700">)<br>-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">entityCondition</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'bundle'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">project_issue_issue_node_types</span><span style="color: #007700">())<br>-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">fieldCondition</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'field_issue_version'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'value'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'8.x-dev'</span><span style="color: #007700">)<br>-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">range</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">0</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">10</span><span style="color: #007700">)<br>-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">addTag</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'DANGEROUS_ACCESS_CHECK_OPT_OUT'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$result </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$query</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">execute</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br><br>foreach (</span><span style="color: #0000BB">node_load_multiple</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">array_keys</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$result</span><span style="color: #007700">[</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'node'</span><span style="color: #007700">])) as </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$node</span><span style="color: #007700">) {<br> print </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$node</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">nid </span><span style="color: #007700">. </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"\n"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$node</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">field_issue_version</span><span style="color: #007700">[</span><span style="color: #0000BB">LANGUAGE_NONE</span><span style="color: #007700">][</span><span style="color: #0000BB">0</span><span style="color: #007700">][</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'value'</span><span style="color: #007700">] = </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'8.0.x-dev'</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$node</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">log </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Update version number for semantic versioning.'</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$node</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">nodechanges_skip </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">TRUE</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">node_save</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$node</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br>}<br></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span></span></pre></div>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Other things effected that need to be updated</h4>
<ul>
<li>Documentation that mentions 8.x branch</li>
<ul>
<li>like sub pages of <a href="https://www.drupal.org/new-contributors">https://www.drupal.org/new-contributors</a></li>
</ul>
<li>?</li>
</ul>
<h3>The future</h3>
<ul>
<li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/project_issue_file_test/issues/2268449" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#2268449: Run contrib module branch tests against both dev and latest stable core branches</a></span></li>
</ul>
> Related issue: [Issue #2227411](https://www.drupal.org/node/2227411)
> Related issue: [Issue #2313917](https://www.drupal.org/node/2313917)
> Related issue: [Issue #2315849](https://www.drupal.org/node/2315849)
> Related issue: [Issue #2323259](https://www.drupal.org/node/2323259)
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