-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > > That would not be a friendly way to go. I am arguing that we remove the > temptation.
And I'm arguing that revising history is unfriendly. > 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. LOL! People have this curious habit of building against what they want to build against. And resenting people who try to tell them they're doing their pet project wrong. :-) > Using a milestone tag would not be the way to go here. Subversion > version numbers work quite nicely here. Eugh. Tags are a friendly way of mnemonicising rev numbers. Telling someone to use a particular transaction number is *really* unfriendly. And again, we *don't know* how people might be using the tags. Yanking tags out from under them is pretty unfriendly too. > Agreed. I am arguing that *milestone* tags are not the way to support > the above scenarios. A milestone represents a significant point in the development. Until there's a released version that is feature- and bug- compatible with what they're doing, a milestone reference is better than anything else. Why would you want to remove a reference to an accomplishment? Rename it perhaps (to 'M1_NO_LONGER_SUPPORTED' or something). > To what end will someone dig up, say, M3? A supported tag e.g. v1_0_0 > or v1_0_5 I can see. That's the point -- we *don't know* why they might. Customers are endlessly inventive, particularly at using things in unanticipated ways. Maybe they want to graph progress or change rate between milestones; who knows? I don't think we can assume that we can guess ahead of time all possible reasons all possible people might want to use the tags. One of the common practices about open development is keeping history intact. Forever. Good and bad. Again, that's me. My US$0.02. - -- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Ken.Coar.Org/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBQ2bcbprNPMCpn3XdAQK3KgQA3VaXwKGfwH5iFZA0bFBnbawODbngVAgk /xjJ77NKS923FokMok8kY3Lp2tUwf8DF62qa8IWMSm/LiMh2Dh6REmhrOWrEpexT bUPyUzs4pzQH+Lm7q8vYVtXLVHnY1qpK8XZSy6HCqrKeoLRAgtXGJ5th4muyyM1N WQCnVDDKhyE= =yR3C -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
