Philippe Bossut (Merov Linden) wrote:
> On Apr 24, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Philippe Bossut (Merov Linden) wrote:
> 
>>"branches" is the parking repository for the "vendor" version, the
>>code that gets exported by LL into the OSS realm. That's where code
>>lands when they throw it over the wall (<disclaimer>I'm being
>>facetious here with my use of vocabulary and, in that particular
>>instance, that's me throwing code over the wall</disclaimer>). We (as
>>open source developers) are not supposed to modify branches ever. They
>>are sacred and represent what comes from Lindens. We build it though
>>to make sure it's not evil, that our changes don't get stomped by
>>Linden updates and that we like it enough to merge it into our  
>>projects.
> 
> 
> 
> Rob followed by a post of his own and updated the wiki describing the  
> branches:
>     http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Source_branches
> 
> I hope this clears the objective of the svn hierarchy.

So "Merov Linden" is "we" the open source developers?  Not a Linden?

The wiki page has a Note! and a Warning! that basically say don't 
believe anything you read there.  Concerning "projects" all it says is
> linden/projects/* Later on, Linden Lab wanted to have a more serious project 
> that was more of a shared effort that they were conducting with an external 
> vendor in the public repository, so they created the projects area.

Am I seeing something different from what you're seeing?

Mike

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