On Sun, 2013-11-24 at 15:07 +0100, Éloi Rivard wrote: > Ok, I though keeping archives was important. > This is done, the branch name is release-1.1.0 Great! I have downloaded the release-1.1.0 branch and built it as a separate user. It appears to be in working order - Jeremiah can you create the candidate release tarball from this for sanity checking?
Richard > > > > 2013/11/24 Richard Shann <[email protected]> > On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 23:56 +0100, Éloi Rivard wrote: > > A git tag points on one commit, no matter on which branch it > is > > (master or anything else). > > > > Branches to points to one commit, not a "set", but the > difference is > > that when you append a new commit, the branch points to the > newer > > commit. > > > > When you consider a commit, you also consider its parents, > that is > > what we feel we deal with "sets" of commits. > > > > > > Since you don't seem very cumfortable with tags: I can > propose you > > another workflow: > > > I suggest we make things much simpler: when we want to make a > release we > create a branch labelled stable-i.j.k as before, and when the > translations are in (and any fixes needed during testing) we > create the > final candidate tarball. Once this is tested we upload to > ftp.gnu.org > and announce the release. Then we delete the branch. > > The reasoning is simple: we are not a library that needs to > maintain > more than one version. We will never issue a release based on > an old > release rather than based on master. And, this is a process we > already > know how to do - we are severely short of resource for doing > infrastructure. > > (Of course, we can transform the release branch into a tag if > folk > prefer and someone knows how ...) > > If this is acceptable could someone who knows how create the > branch > stable-1.1.0 so that we can start testing. > > Richard > > > > > > > > -- > Éloi Rivard - [email protected] > > « On perd plus à être indécis qu'à se tromper. » > _______________________________________________ Denemo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/denemo-devel
