The recent conversion of the Net-SNMP source code repository
to be under the control of Subversion has done an outstanding
job of retaining the previous CVS development history.
However, I would suggest that the 'tags' and 'branches'
trees contain a large amount of stuff that is redundant and/or
confusing. I propose that we should clean things up a bit,
separating out the main releases and development lines from
all the historical crud (which could either be moved aside,
or deleted altogether).
In particular, I propose the following:
1) branches:
a) Retain V5-{2,3,4}-branches as currently
b) Move the following to a new directory ('closed')
V3-line
V4-0-line
V4-1-1-patches,
V4-2-patches,
V5-0-patches
V5-1-patches
b') Move the following to either b) or c):
V-5-0-10-patches (rename to V5-0-10-patches?)
V-5-2-1-patches (rename to V5-2-1-patches?)
V5-1-3-patches
V5-3-0-patches
c) Move all remaining branches to a new directory ('old')
d) Delete some/all branches from c)
2) tags:
a) Retain all tags of the form
Ext-{3,4,5}-X
Ext-{3,4,5}-X-Y
Ext-{3,4,5}-X-Y-Z
as currently
b) Move all tags of the form
Ext-....-preN
Ext-...rcN
to a new directory ('pre-release')
b') Delete some/all pre-release tags
c) Move all remaining tags to a new directory ('misc')
d) Delete some/all tags from c)
That should end up with a much cleaner framework.
I'm unconvinced whether it's worth keeping most of
the "temporary" tags and branches (which would be
mostly the stuff under 1c) and 2c) above)
I'm also inclined to drop all the pre-release tags
once the corresponding full release has been made.
But separating these out from the full releases
would be a reasonable compromise, if it was felt
worth keeping them.
Anyway, comments?
Dave
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