On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
> It is possible that we have this wrong. Adding in site/ and ooo-site/ > brings in a different convention. They have are set up to have > trunk/tags/branches underneath them. That is fine, because the > website does not "release" in synch with an OOo release. It makes > sense for them to be able to tag and branch independently. > agree > We should also consider how the project grows going forward. We know > that other code bases will be checked in, like Symphony. And there > are other, small, but disjoint contributions that I'm working on as > well. > > So it might make sense to move trunk down one level: > > /ooo/ooo-src/trunk/main > /ooo/ooo-src/trunk/extras > /ooo/ooo-src/trunk/ext-sources > /ooo/ooo-src/tags > /ooo/ooo-src/branches > > That would make more sense then, as a unit, since we would want to tag > the across all of /ooo/ooo-src/ to define a release. > > agree, from this perspective it make sense. The question then is when we want to introduce this further level? > I assume a developer still just checks out ooo/ooo-src/trunk/main. If > they need the additional "extras" then they check that out separately. > I don't think most users will want to check out the entire trunk all > the time. We should consider also how we want this tree to grow over > time, as other related > i assumed that a developer will check out trunk, maybe a wrong assumption > > In the end, I think we want to preserve the ability to: > > 1) Preserve an audit trail of all changes that went into a release > > 2) Do be able to tag and branch a release and everything that is in the > release > > 3) Restore the exact state of a previous tagged release, including the > exact ext-sources used in that release > > I'm certain that my proposal will enable this. There may be other > approaches that do as well. > i think so too. And with my changed mindset to not always check out trunk completely i am fine with this approach. > > Another thing to keep in mind is the SVN support for "externals": > > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch07s03.html > > interesting, i didn't know that before Juergen
