On 8 May 2016 at 13:43, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 May 2016 at 13:16, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> wrote:
>> Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> schrieb am So., 8. Mai 2016 um
>> 14:06 Uhr:
>>
>>> I just made 2.5 look like 2.4. How is that a change that requires
>>> discussion? Shouldn't it have been noticed and discussed when it was
>>> done for 2.4?
>>>
>>
>> I see sebb's point. It is good to have a name tags uniformly. Some
>> components have a wild mix of different casing in the tag names. My
>> personal opinion is, that the tag names should just the release version
>> number, but that is a different discussion.
>>
>> If this change has been made to make tag names uniform in commons-io, I
>> don't see a problem with that.
>
> I agree that having mixed names for tags is confusing, but so is
> having multiple tags for the same release.
>
> And in order to fix IO properly it would require many more duplicate
> tags; the current list is:
>
> 2.2/
> 2.3/
> 2.4/
> 2.5/
> IO_1_0/
> IO_1_1/
> IO_1_2/
> IO_1_3/
> IO_1_3_1/
> commons-io-1.3.2/
> commons-io-1.4/
> commons-io-2.0/
> commons-io-2.0.1/
> commons-io-2.1/
> commons-io-2.5/
>
> [For simplicity I have omitted the RCs]
>
> The addition of the 2.5 tag did little to fix the problem.
>
> And I don't agree that bare version numbers are best for Commons.
> When the tag is checked out, it is not clear what component it is for.

Forgot to say: the tags are also noted in the released POM

So the 2.5/pom.xml is inconsistent with its location.

If we want to change the convention going forward, we should vote on that.
But we cannot/must not change history.

>> Benedikt
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 7:17 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > On 6 May 2016 at 13:16,  <bimargul...@apache.org> wrote:
>>> >> Author: bimargulies
>>> >> Date: Fri May  6 12:16:39 2016
>>> >> New Revision: 1742534
>>> >>
>>> >> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1742534&view=rev
>>> >> Log:
>>> >> Honor both tagging conventions?
>>> >
>>> > This is potentially confusing.
>>> >
>>> > I think it should have been discussed first.
>>> >
>>> >> Added:
>>> >>     commons/proper/io/tags/2.5/
>>> >>       - copied from r1742533, commons/proper/io/tags/commons-io-2.5/
>>> >>
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