tis 2005-06-07 klockan 16:06 -0600 skrev Gary Ekker: > On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 23:33 +0200, Christian Rose wrote: > > m�n 2005-06-06 klockan 20:44 -0600 skrev Gary Ekker: > > > Hi, > > > > > > The stable branch is now gnome-2-8� development branch is HEAD with a > > > version bump to 2.11.0. > > > > I'm confused -- is this stable branch intended as being the stable > > branch for further GNOME 2.10 releases? In that case, why is it called > > gnome-2-8 and not gnome-2-10 ? > > No reason really. It was versioned at 2.8.5, and had never been branched > for gnome-2-8 or gnome-2-10. It somehow made sense to me to name the > branch gnome-2-8 and bump the configure.in to 2.8.6. > > If this causes a problem for anyone, i.e. a build system like jhbuild or > garnome, then I can certainly change it. Otherwise I'll just use the > gnome-2-8 branch should another stable update be needed for the 2.8/2.10 > series.
I'm afraid the current branch name will be very confusing to many contributors, not at least translators, who work with many modules at the same time and rely on branches being named consistently. The policy (http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/for_maintainers.html) is that the branch name should indicate the stable GNOME release the branch is targeted at, which means the *latest* stable GNOME release the branch is targeted at, if it is supposed to cover many stable releases. Noone will never ever (hopefully) release a new version of GNOME 2.8, however naming a new branch "gnome-2-8" implies that you're working towards such a release, which I'm sure isn't the case. However, the branch name still indicates that. Putting it another way: Have a look at http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.10/sv/desktop/ and try to find the pattern in branch naming... So yes, if you could find a way to create a stable branch with the standard name "gnome-2-10", it would be *much* appreciated. Christian _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
