Hi All, My thought would be to leave it where it is. I only want to fiddle with one "place" (a SVN local dir) when working and releasing a project/component. It seems to me that moving it out is asking for it to become out of sync.
Gary On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:30 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > The DOAP files are currently held under > > /commons/proper/<component>/trunk/doap_<component>.rdf > > This is sort of convenient for editting, but means the doap file gets > included in tags and branches and may get included in source. > If included in source, the release date may be missing or inaccurate. > > The DOAP files are only needed for building projects.apache.org, so > don't really belong as part of the source. > > So I think the files should be moved out of trunk. > > They could be moved into the parent directory, i.e. > > /commons/proper/<component>/doap_<component>.rdf > > The advantage is that it is still part of the component SVN tree; the > disadvantage is that it is slightly awkward to update, as one must > checkout the folder using --depth filesonly. > > Another possibility would be to create a separate directory for all > the DOAP files. > This would create a bigger workspace, but would be slightly easier to > use - omitting the --depth qualifier would not result in a huge > accidental checkout of all tags and branches. > > [Whatever directory is chosen, it would be trivial to update the > projects.a.o build config file.] > > Thoughts? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org JUnit in Action, 2nd Ed: <http://goog_1249600977>http://bit.ly/ECvg0 Spring Batch in Action: <http://s.apache.org/HOq>http://bit.ly/bqpbCK Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
