here's a few comments & questions to help me get some clarification on our branching 
strategy ---

if we do repeated merges between branch and head we'll potentially run into 
cvs-conflicts since any secondary merges will try to re-merge stuff from prior merges. 
so i think we either have to use an intermediate tagging protocol to keep track or 
merge points, or just manually make the changes in both and do the commits once for 
the head and once for the branch. either way's fine with me, so i just wanted to get 
folks' preferences or feedback before proceeding, and possibly put in my 2 cents too.

if we choose to manually add changes to *both* the head and branch (i.e., two edits 
per change), and commit each separately, that's alright too, except that we'd probably 
not be taking advantage of cvs's features to their full potential (merge 
capabilities), and possibly be increasing the possibility for manual errors a bit too.

in any case, its best to explicitly choose a strategy now, before committing or 
merging after the branch point, to avoid conflicts between opposing strategies. does 
jboss have a standard strategy for this? 

if jboss doesn't have a standard way of doing it, i may put in a vote for doing M1 
bugfixes on the M1 branch and merging them into the head (tagging at each merge point 
with a numerically increasing tag pattern so that proper incremental merges can be 
done for new stuff between two versions) [or visa-versa, head->m1, doesn't matter], 
and doing new development on head. btw, are the features in M1 'frozen' or do we also 
want to add new development to M1? 

mike


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