[Kde-games-devel] naming of Tags and Branches

[Parker Coates]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 21:31, Frederik Schwarzer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> with respect to branch and tag names the following question just
> occurred.
>
> What happens if a game comes from Extragear with all its own version
> numbers? It might have had a v4.9.1 tag and a 4.9 branch already when
> entering the kdegames module.
>
> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/MovetoGit/Progress indicates that the
> rest of KDE is using
>   KDE/X.Y
> as branch names. Why don't we? Any reason or did it just happen?

I have been using KDE/X.Y for stable branches in my repos. Which games aren't?

> The problem would remain for tags. At least kdelibs uses
>   vX.Y.Z

I really wish that the rest of KDE was using a "KDE" prefix for tags
as well. I don't like the inconsistency.

> So, are we ignoring the fact and see how to solve it when the case
> actually occurs, by e.g renaming the tags of the particular game?

Maybe add the game name as a prefix for game specific version tags?
"kgoldrunner-vX.Y.Z"?

Parker