Hi Tom,

On Friday 28 May 2010 10:53:42 am Tom Sharpless wrote:
> What has happened to the idea of keeping (past and future) releases in
> the SVN repository?

Most voices were against it.  I did research on the topic and could probably 
implement something if there is a use case with benefit/effort >1.

> Released code needs to
> adhere to a higher standard of buildability and documentation

that's what tarballs are for.


> 2) It validates lots of existing documentation about how to build
> Hugin

yes, the SVN->Hg move has made a lot of documentation outdated.


> the project should be as helpful as possible to people who just want
> to build (and distribute) stable releases

Agree.  The use case here would be to update the documentation and help those 
people cope with the new repository.

Also: for stable releases there are the tarballs.  Nothing has changed with 
them AFAIK, other than we forgot the monthly poll to ask ourselves if "trunk" 
(or now in new Hg terminology "default") contains enough new features to 
warrant branching out a release.  The release cycle's documentation [0] is now 
technically outdated (need to replace hg commands with svn commands) but the 
process is still the same.


> The fact that Hugin releases have so far
> not lived in SVN

actually since 0.8.0 releases have lived in SVN, each with its own branch 
according to [0].  After a few fixes and enough polish, the branch florish into 
a tarball.

Yuv

[0] http://wiki.panotools.org/Development_of_Open_Source_tools#Release

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