[Kde-extra-gear] Branch/tag summary and cleanup discussion

[Dirk Ziegelmeier]

Hello list,

I have a few questions. Please exuse me, I don't follow many KDE mailing lists 
since I do not put much time any more in kdetv. I hope this hasn't been 
discussed anywhere else already.

- What's the use of the stable tag? One can create a tarball of the current 
stable versions of all keg apps. OK, agreed (don't know why one should do 
that since all apps are released independently anyway, but we have been 
through this discussion already). How do packagers get the right l10n files? 
I would need to copy them to the tag, too.
-> tags/stable/extragear/multimedia/kdetv/src
   tags/stable/extragear/multimedia/kdetv/l10n
-> bad to create a package
-> bad to tag since l10n is sorted by language and not by application. Script?

- What's the use of the stable tag? Translations: Don't understand how this 
should work. When I put the latest version of my app in the tags/stable dir, 
it has already been released. The translators will be "too late" - I'd have 
to put my app there _BEFORE_ I release it. So what I would need is a 
"translate_me" tag - I already have that, at least sort of, when I announce 
the string freeze on the i18n mailinglist. So how is this supposed to work?

- Is it desirable to put kdetv in the stable BRANCH when I don't work on the 
branch any more (-> which makes it actually a tag). I don't follow any branch 
model in my development, yes this brings me into trouble sometimes, but I 
doubt it is of much use for me. So kdetv will only appear in TAGS dir, is 
this OK?

- How do I recreate a stable tag on the next release? Delete old one and svn 
copy? Or does svn copy erase the old one automatically?

- I'm currently a bit confused about branch/tags statements in the last mails, 
maybe there was also some confusion for others. A TAG is _static_, a branch 
will be _worked on_. Is the following summary correct:

- A STABLE tag is to keep the LATEST stable version of an app, e.g. 
tags/stable/extragear/multimedia/kdetv (containing 0.8.7 ATM)
- All releases of an app have a copy in the tags dir. Which one?
   - tags/extragear/multimedia/kdetv/kdetv_0_8_7 
   - tags/kdetv/kdetv_0_8_7
- Optionally, I could maintain a stable BRANCH 
branches/stable/extragear/multimedia/kdetv which will only have bugfixes but 
no new features.

Dirk