I don't care what we do with M4, but for any release we plan to maintain, I think we need to keep branches around indefinitely. If people are going to confuse branches and tags, then I think we need to solve that with documentation on our source page or releases page or something.
Aaron On 9/18/05, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 17, 2005, at 5:34 PM, Dain Sundstrom wrote: > > > Geir, I sent and email about this and the feedback I got was "do it". > > Yes, at 1 a.m. yesterday, and two responses. I didn't get to dev > list mail yesterday due to bringing home wife and new baby from > hospital. > > > > > Regardless, we don't want this branch, the tag contains the real M4 > > code so the QA branch we created for testing M4 is confusing to > > users (like me). > > No. Branches contain the code. The tag is a pointer to a moment in > time on a branch. Putting aside the never-ending-argument about > whether or not a security fix like M4.1 is possible due to naming > preferences, what would happen if we had a horrible security or other > problem that required us to distribute a patched release? > > We would work on the branch, make a new tag, and test and release > that. I think we need to keep our branches around. > > geir > > > > > -dain > > > > On Sep 17, 2005, at 1:04 PM, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > > > > > >> Didn't we decide not to do this? > >> > >> We leave the branch as well, so if someone wants to evolve it and > >> tag, they can... > >> > >> geir > >> > >> On Sep 17, 2005, at 1:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>> Author: dain > >>> Date: Sat Sep 17 10:39:10 2005 > >>> New Revision: 289835 > >>> > >>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=289835&view=rev > >>> Log: > >>> This branch is old and should have been deleted a long time ago. > >>> The official m4 code can be found in tags/v1_0_M4/ > >>> > >>> Removed: > >>> geronimo/branches/v1_0_M4-QA/ > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> -- > >> Geir Magnusson Jr +1-203-665-6437 > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > Geir Magnusson Jr +1-203-665-6437 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
