Frederic Lehobey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hi, | | On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:28:09AM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | > Ralf Hemmecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > [...] | > | > | > It is good to have unstable branch where experiments are | > | > conducted. | | > | > but I think we need one branch that is unstable but not too unstable. | > | | > | That's a good point. It sounds like a three stage system. | > | | > | A golden branch that will be the stable version. (axiom--main--1) | > | A silver branch that will be the almost stable branch (that is where you | > | opted for maintaining) | > | Several experimental branches, where one person (or a group of people) | > | agrees on how they do development until the experiment becomes | > | resonably stable to be ready for the silver branch. | | > | > I'm willing to take responsability for that, but I need general | > | > agreement from the community (especially from Tim) for having that | > | > sort branch with the intent that patches applied there will move to | > | > the stable branch when they have survived enough testing and satisfy | > | > The Master (Tim!) taste. | | This is somewhat the Linus Torvalds / Andrew Morton approach for | developing the Linux kernel.
Exactly right. It was also the Richard Stallman model of managing old gcc. | > There are tools to convert CVS repositories to SVN ones; I don't know | > whether similar tools exist for converting tla archive to SVN. The | | See Tailor: http://www.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Tailor thanks; I'll look into that. | How hard is it to settle a public subversion server? not very difficult. | Do you have access to the appropriate hosting resources? Not yet (though I do have write access); but if we have Tim's buy-in then I'll expect that he would grant access to however will be in charge of that branch. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer