[Kde-extra-gear] extragear packages from branch or tag?

[Sebastian Trueg]

IMHO we don't need the stable tag. A branch makes way more sense.
But I think one does not have to use the stable branch if it's too much work. 
Isn't that part of the extragear "spirit"? The thing will never be released 
as a big package. So if you don't want to do all the stable branch moving and 
don't need a stable branch anyway (for example small apps) just stick to the 
old ways: develop in trunk, short string freeze, release, develop in 
trunk, ....

Cheers,
Sebastian

On Monday 04 July 2005 15:31, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Michael Buesch wrote:
> >Will the extragear packages be created from stable branch or stable tag?
> >I would prefer from branch. Which, in turn, would make the stable
> >tag useless. This would reduce maintainance work, a lot.
> >So I'm implicitely suggesting to drop the stable tag, now. ;)
> >What do you think?
>
> IMO "stable tag" is an anti-thetical. The purpose of the stable tag, IIUC,
> was to mark the latest version of a released program.
>
> But tags aren't supposed to be moved.
>
> Let me see if I understand correctly what an extragear maintainer is
> supposed to do:
>
> - develop in trunk/extragear
> - backport bugfixes to branches/stable/extragear
> - when releasing, he has to:
>   - create a /tags/appname/version.number tag
>   - copy it to /tags/stable/appname
> - if the released version is a major release, then do as well:
>   - copy /branches/stable/appname to /branches/appname/version.number
>   - copy /trunk/extragear/appname to /branches/stable/appname
>
> Does it sound overkill to anyone else?