Re: Why are repositories usually separated into releases and snapshots?

2009-10-25 Thread Stephen Connolly
Sent from my [rhymes with tryPod] ;-) On 25 Oct 2009, at 01:36, David Weintraub qazw...@gmail.com wrote: No one has answered the basic question: Why two repositories? I know the differences between a release and snapshot. but that doesn't explain why the releases and snapshots are in two

Re: Why are repositories usually separated into releases and snapshots?

2009-10-25 Thread Barrie Treloar
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Stephen Connolly stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com wrote: So, what is the reason to have two separate and distinct repositories for snapshots and for releases? update frequency, you may want to check snapshots with a greater or lesser frequency than releases

Re: Why are repositories usually separated into releases and snapshots?

2009-10-25 Thread Stephen Connolly
2009/10/25 Stephen Connolly stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com: Sent from my [rhymes with tryPod] ;-) On 25 Oct 2009, at 01:36, David Weintraub qazw...@gmail.com wrote: No one has answered the basic question: Why two repositories? I know the differences between a release and snapshot. but

Re: Why are repositories usually separated into releases and snapshots?

2009-10-25 Thread Stephen Duncan Jr
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 9:36 PM, David Weintraub qazw...@gmail.com wrote: No one has answered the basic question: Why two repositories? I know the differences between a release and snapshot. but that doesn't explain why the releases and snapshots are in two separate repositories. Why not

Re: Why are repositories usually separated into releases and snapshots?

2009-10-25 Thread Yaakov Chaikin
That's certainly seems like one good reason... Another reason is that your unreleased snapshots are going to trash your release repository... This, of course, depends on how you build... For example, on our project, I didn't at first care to use the snapshots repository and just had everything

Re: Why are repositories usually separated into releases and snapshots?

2009-10-24 Thread David Weintraub
No one has answered the basic question: Why two repositories? I know the differences between a release and snapshot. but that doesn't explain why the releases and snapshots are in two separate repositories. Why not keep both snapshots and releases in the same repository. We know something is a

Re: Why are repositories usually separated into releases and snapshots?

2009-10-24 Thread Sahoo
Sometime back I had the exact question in my mind and QoS (what you mentioned as administration) and security were the only ones I could think of. Thanks, Sahoo David Weintraub wrote: No one has answered the basic question: Why two repositories? I know the differences between a release and

Why are repositories usually separated into releases and snapshots?

2009-10-22 Thread Costin Caraivan
Hello, I saw that most repositories are separated into releases and snapshots. And that most repository managers recommend using releases and snapshots. Now, I know what each of them is: 1. release - stable version, will be uploaded only once, when you want to change something you make a new

Re: Why are repositories usually separated into releases and snapshots?

2009-10-22 Thread Brian Fox
It's essentially because of what you wrote below. You may want to be very diligent about backing up your release repo, but not so rigorous for snapshots. Snapshots tend to take up a lot more disk than releases because there are many copies of it when you use timestamps. This requires cleanup and

RE: Why are repositories usually separated into releases and snapshots?

2009-10-22 Thread Martin Gainty
a snapshot usually has no guarantee of passing any sort of testits a way for a programmer/developer to prove that the developer assigned has done *something*..but the snapshot carries no guarantee has passed completely thru the SDLC validation lifecycle a release carries much more

Re: Why are repositories usually separated into releases and snapshots?

2009-10-22 Thread Brian Fox
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Martin Gainty mgai...@hotmail.com wrote: a snapshot usually has no guarantee of passing any sort of testits a way for a programmer/developer to prove that the developer assigned has done *something*..but the snapshot carries no guarantee has passed

RE: Why are repositories usually separated into releases and snapshots?

2009-10-22 Thread Todd Thiessen
Very interesting discussion. We have been having some of the exact same discussions. A lot of it comes down to what one defines as a team. Is a team a collection of 3 developers working on a very specific part of a larger system? Or, on the complete other side of the spectrum, is it 100