chore: update versioning doc for nightlies (#15468)

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Samuel Attard 2018-10-31 04:33:50 +11:00 committed by Shelley Vohr
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@ -117,12 +117,11 @@ A few examples of how various semver ranges will pick up new releases:
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# Missing Features: Alphas, and Nightly
# Missing Features: Alphas
Our strategy has a few tradeoffs, which for now we feel are appropriate. Most importantly that new features in master may take a while before reaching a stable release line. If you want to try a new feature immediately, you will have to build Electron yourself.
As a future consideration, we may introduce one or both of the following:
* nightly builds off of master; these would allow folks to test new features quickly and give feedback
* alpha releases that have looser stability constraints to betas; for example it would be allowable to admit new features while a stability channel is in _alpha_
# Feature Flags
@ -143,8 +142,9 @@ We seek to increase clarity at all levels of the update and releases process. St
* We allow squashing of commits, provided that the squashed message adheres the the above message format.
* It is acceptable for some commits in a pull request to not include a semantic prefix, as long as the pull request title contains a meaningful encompassing semantic message.
# Versionless `master`
# Versioned `master`
- The `master` branch will always contain `0.0.0-dev` in its `package.json`
- The `master` branch will always contain the next major version `X.0.0-nightly.DATE` in its `package.json`
- Release branches are never merged back to master
- Release branches _do_ contain the correct version in their `package.json`
- As soon as a release branch is cut for a major, master must be bumped to the next major. I.e. `master` is always versioned as the next theoretical release branch