"Vincent Massol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/08/2003 02:57:48 PM:
> Yeah... The reasons are: > > - I don't understand why we're doing it the reverse way, i.e. HEAD > should be the main branch and JASON_REFACTORING should the unstable > branch containing Jason's refactorings Historical reasons. HEAD is the latest, greatest code. I created the branch for continuing development, as I couldn't continue with HEAD. > - My environment is setup for HEAD right now and I haven't bothered > changing it > > - Users will naturally use HEAD rather than the STABLE branch Uses use releases. Only those who do development would even try building from source. > - Eventually it will have go to HEAD Yep. > Now for the questions: > > - Are we going to release something out of the STABLE branch before the > HEAD is fixed? Not if we can help it. > - Are we going to fix the way we're doing stuff and move STABLE to HEAD > and HEAD to REFACTORING? (No, I'm not volunteering... just back from 2 > weeks holiday and I'm swamped... ;-)) Not unless you're volunteering. The theory is that HEAD will gradually become the place and we will merge once it's stable. -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Blog: http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/
