On 2007-03-07 10:34:47 +0000, Dave Shield wrote:
> 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
i would propose to change the names to:
net-snmp-5.{2,3,4}.x
> b) Move the following to a new directory ('closed')
> V3-line
> V4-0-line
> V4-1-1-patches,
> V4-2-patches,
> V5-0-patches
just delete them. you can undo the deletion if needed in one svn merge
cmdline.
> V5-1-patches
can we leave that open for a bit more time. i could at least put all the
our patches for 5.1 into it.
> 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
what makes those branches different to the branches in a) ?
shouldnt the content be in the branches from a) aswell?
> c) Move all remaining branches to a new directory ('old')
> d) Delete some/all branches from c)
just delete the unused branches. you can undo the deletion if needed in
one svn merge cmdline. i would only keep them directly visible if you
need them (to lookup stuff or so)
> 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)
many of those "tags" seems to be kind of release branches. i would just
delete them. I doubt anyone is interested in tags for some prerelease
stuff.
> That should end up with a much cleaner framework.
agreed. :)
> 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.
what arguments do you have for keeping them?
darix
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