Hello, On 23/10/13 17:24, Klaus Espenlaub wrote: > On 21.10.2013 23:55, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: >> Le 21/10/2013 09:12, Michael Thayer a écrit : >>> On 18/10/13 22:56, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: >>>> ok so what's the preferred solution now? How can I trigger the 4.3 >>>> branch to update synchronously and, if possible, know when things >>>> change? >>> If you are interested in maintaining both manuals - the 4.3 one and >>> the development tree one - in parallel, one way would be for me to >>> send an e-mail to this list before minor version releases saying which >>> change sets from the trunk manual were back-ported to 4.3. Then you >>> could copy over the relevant sections of text from the trunk manual. >>> Does that seem reasonable? As I said, I think that considering the >>> 4.3 manual translation as finished and just continuing work on trunk >>> would also make sense if maintaining two versions is a pain. >>> >> >> >> I propose 2 alternatives: >> 1. Give me the URK to checkout the 4.3 branch and, when there's a >> change, simply notify me by mail (or notify here). I'll work then with >> svn diff to patch. >> 2. I go on trunk, and you apply changes there in 4.3 release. But I'm >> not sure it's possible given the dev process of vbox. >> >> Hence: I propose the 1st alternative. > > Unfortunately there is no publicly accessible repository which contains > any VirtualBox branches. It's a long-standing todo (and we want to get > that done, to avoid any misunderstanding) which we couldn't complete > because it needs quite some effort to make the involved tools smarter. > > Trunk and 4.3 will diverge relatively quickly, so 2. won't work in the > long run. As I mentioned though, there tend to be very few changes to the manual after a release, so keeping up with trunk and manually copying the few relevant text sections from trunk to the 4.3 manual might be an option.
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