RE: handling patches

2002-11-02 Thread Victor Mote
Keiron Liddle wrote: Actually projects like mozilla have branches for maintanence but the key is that they are short lived, this didn't work out like that. I don't know this, but I'll bet that the maintenance branch that you refer to here is for bug fixes, while the main development line

RE: handling patches

2002-11-02 Thread Victor Mote
Victor Mote wrote: If it is not feasible to unify significant portions of the two branches, either by switching them in the repository or by putting them into one branch, then I propose that we clarify our terminology by using the term rewrite instead of redesign. This would signal that we

Re: handling patches (how about fop 2)

2002-11-02 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Saturday 02 November 2002 10:35, Victor Mote wrote: . . .I would also recommend that, in the above case, we actually put the code into two different projects. . . . +1, I like the idea. How about moving the new code (HEAD) to a separate (xml-fop2) CVS project to clarify things, and maybe

Re: handling patches

2002-11-02 Thread Peter B. West
Victor, Keiron has responded to specifics, so I will make a couple of general points below... Victor Mote wrote: ... I realize that I am jumping into this conversation in the middle. I am ignorant of the history of how we got where we are, so **please** understand that I am not being

New xml-lang.xml

2002-11-02 Thread Peter B. West
Chuck, Oleg, You may be interested in the modifications I have checked in to conf/xml-lang.xml under the FOP_0-20-0_Alt-Design tag. These were prompted by the changes to the handling of ISO 639 language tags in the Errata, although these changes had been flagged some time ago. I had been

Re: handling patches (how about fop 2)

2002-11-02 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: How about moving the new code (HEAD) to a separate (xml-fop2) CVS project to clarify things, and maybe name the new version fop 2 instead of 1.0x? Although the current version is 0.20.x, it *is* used in production at a number of sites, so going directly to version

Re: handling patches

2002-11-02 Thread Peter B. West
Victor, ... Victor Mote wrote: Victor Mote wrote: If it is not feasible to unify significant portions of the two branches, either by switching them in the repository or by putting them into one branch, then I propose that we clarify our terminology by using the term rewrite instead of

RE: handling patches

2002-11-02 Thread Victor Mote
Peter B. West wrote: (Aside: I disagree with the only model that seems to work bit. Not everyone has a short attention span.) Well, there is probably a reason that I see you frequently checking code into the repository. Even when I am working with code that is torn apart and spread out all

RE: handling patches

2002-11-02 Thread Victor Mote
Peter B. West wrote: Victor Mote wrote: Victor Mote wrote: If it is not feasible to unify significant portions of the two branches, either by switching them in the repository or by putting them into one branch, then I propose that we clarify our terminology by using the term rewrite

RE: handling patches (how about fop 2)

2002-11-02 Thread Victor Mote
Oleg Tkachenko wrote: and contributors efforts. Maintenance branch, as you correctly noted, is in production at many sites therefore making it a project on its own will lead to a strengthening of its meaning and this way we'll encourage many existing and future contributors to work on it,

Re: handling patches

2002-11-02 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Victor Mote wrote: Branches imply eventual merging, Not necessarily. I'll be happy to consider this point if someone will name even one benefit to keeping code that will never be merged in the same tree. Well, the main idea of branches is just to split development, e.g. for the sake of

Re: handling patches

2002-11-02 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Friday 01 November 2002 16:51, Keiron Liddle wrote: . . .Maybe the simplest is to move the old layout to the trunk, get that working and put the new layout in a branch. But it needs to be agreed upon. . . . It would be great if the layout engine could be factored out as a component with a

Re: handling patches (how about fop 2)

2002-11-02 Thread Ralph LaChance
Oooh - an inspired idea. At 06:24 AM 11/2/02, you wrote: On Saturday 02 November 2002 10:35, Victor Mote wrote: . . .I would also recommend that, in the above case, we actually put the code into two different projects. . . . +1, I like the idea. How about moving the new code (HEAD) to a

Re: handling patches

2002-11-02 Thread Peter B. West
Victor Mote wrote: Oleg Tkachenko wrote: Victor Mote wrote: Branches imply eventual merging, Not necessarily. I'll be happy to consider this point if someone will name even one benefit to keeping code that will never be merged in the same tree. Well, the main idea of branches is

RE: handling patches

2002-11-02 Thread Victor Mote
Peter B. West wrote: If you took offence from the short attention span comment, I am sorry. No such offence was intended. The comment concerns the general approach to development that you mentioned. No offence taken I am sure none was intended. Victor Mote