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Information/Recipes for Curator Committers

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1. Generate PGP code signing keys
2. Ensure that your PGP signing keys are available in the KEYS file that is in the release directory (see SVN Setup).

If you are not already a member of the Web Of Trust (WOT) it would be a good idea to do so. You can read more about key signing here.

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Curator uses semantic versioning. The best description of this is from Curator committer Eric Tschetter:

Essentially, it tells you the API compatibility between multiple dependencies. For example,

If you have version 1.0.0 and 1.0.1, you can use either one and you will not run into errors due to API conflicts (i.e. in Java, no ClassNotFound or NoSuchMethod type exceptions)

If you have 1.0.0 and 1.1.0, you can replace 1.0.0 with 1.1.0 and you will not have errors due to API conflicts. If you try to swap 1.0.0 in place of something that depends on 1.1.0, however, you *might* have errors due to API conflicts. I.e. you can go forward without errors, but not backwards

If you have 1.0.0 and 2.0.0, you will likely have errors due to API conflicts if you replace either one with the other.

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