Not following this one, this implies that ASF has one trunk. Even though copies are cheap I wouldn't want to create a copy of the entire SVN tree for every release.
Err I thought Jakarta would have its own SVN repository, thus the trunk would be "Jakata-wide" and not "ASF-wide". Also I don't think we have to copy the entire tree when tagging/branching, the copy just the component tree :
tags/ digester-1.8/ commons/ digester/ configuration-1.1/ commons/ configuration/
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