I agree. Until we know whether or not we will ever do a release from the 0.2 branch I don't see the point in fixing it. If we never do a release from the 0.2 branch we would just have wasted the effort.
+1 Alasdair On 2 September 2010 17:37, zoe slattery <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/09/2010 16:52, David Jencks wrote: >> >> On Sep 2, 2010, at 12:42 AM, zoe slattery wrote: >> >>> Hi - yes - absolutely. I should have made this a bit clearer but I didn't >>> fully understand it at the start. Once the release artifacts have been >>> created the branch is effectively a dead end. What the maven release plugin >>> does to it during the creation of the release makes it unusable for any >>> practical purpose. >> >> I don't follow your reasoning here. If we intended bug fix releases on >> these branches for the components and had (for a development branch) >> correctly set the next branch version at 0.2.1-incubating-SNAPSHOT then I >> would expect that the svn tree would be all set up for development. Other >> than the version (which conflicts with trunk) and our intentions what makes >> these branches unusable? > > What makes it unusable is that I haven't set it up to be used - by taking > the defaults from the maven release plugin I made it useless. This is > exactly the same in the 0.1-incubating branch. The only reason we might want > this to be set up more sensibly is if we have a requirement to do a > 0.2.1-incubating release because someone finds a problem with one of the 0.2 > modules. That's a possibility and if/when that happens I'll be happy to fix > up the 0.2-incubating branch properly. I'll certainly add this to the Aries > release pages so that we get it right for the 0.3-incubating release. > > Zoė >> >> thanks >> david jencks >> >>> Zoė >>>> >>>> I suspect that Zoe accepted the release plugin suggestion that the next >>>> version would be 0.3-incubating. This would be appropriate on trunk but >>>> when releasing on a branch like this it's probably better to add another >>>> decimal, 0.2.1-incubating. However I hope this branch is a dead end and >>>> nothing other than 0.2-incubating is ever released from it so it shouldn't >>>> make any practical difference. >>>> >>>> thanks >>>> david jencks >>>> >>>> On Sep 1, 2010, at 3:31 PM, Alexandros Karypidis wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> It seems weird that the 0.2-incubaring-RCx branch uses "0.3-..." in >>>>> its<version> tag: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/aries/branches/0.2-incubating-RCx/parent/pom.xml >>>>> >>>>> <name>Aries :: Top Parent POM</name> >>>>> <version>0.3-incubating-SNAPSHOT</version> >>>>> <packaging>pom</packaging> >>>>> >>>>> Is this intended to be this way? >>>>> >>>>> >> > > -- Alasdair Nottingham [email protected]
