Re: Old tags in Geornimo

[Alan D. Cabrera]

Rodent of Unusual Size wrote, On 10/31/2005 1:32 PM: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alan D. Cabrera wrote: Tags imply that they are supported. Really? I've never encountered that before. Maybe against a V1_0_0 tage, but then you just tell someone 'nope, not supported.' M1 means 'milestone one,' right? That would not be a friendly way to go.  I am arguing that we remove the temptation. Another thing to consider is people who build against the idiosyncrasies of a particular tagged version. Making the tag harder to find/check out does them no service. This sort of thing was (is?) seen a lot with the Apache APR code. Things like Subversion and the Apache httpd code are released with specific versions of APR expected. So what if they're obsolete? Make the tag harder to find and it's harder to use. I would use this as an argument  for removing milestone tags  as quickly as possible.  People should not be building against a milestone tag, only a released verison.  Maybe if it was important for a particular project to have a particular snapshot we would cut a supported tag, and most likely a branch if we really liked them, but, imho, using milestone tags is not the way to go. One situation in which I could see this being relevant is a company wanting to incorporate code. They might want to pick a particular point in time in order to do their 'pedigree' checking of the IP issues. Using a milestone tag would not be the way to go here.  Subversion version numbers work quite nicely here. So it's not just the meaning to Geronimo that's relevant here, but the meaning of the tags to consumers/users of the code. Agreed.  I am arguing that *milestone* tags are not the way to support the above scenarios. If the only reason to do anything with the old tags is the concern that someone might consider them as implying support, I'd suggest finding a way to negate that impression that doesn't involve affecting the history or ease of finding it. To what end will someone dig up, say, M3?  A supported tag e.g. v1_0_0 or v1_0_5 I can see. Regards, Alan