[Kde-scm-interest] Re: KDE/ branch prefixes missing from kdepimlibs and plasma-addons

Eike Hein hein at kde.org
Sat Feb 5 04:12:23 CET 2011


On 2/4/2011 3:23 PM, Ian Monroe wrote:
> Maybe you could stir things up a bit and we can find some sort of
> decision. The i18n team has requested that all KDE modules have the
> same name for version branches and I think we can all agree that it
> makes sense.

There's another reason to strive for consistency: Tools
like kdesrc-build allow to specify a branch globally for
all modules; different naming conventions per module make
this more work.

> Your logic is why I thought the KDE prefix makes sense. But the first
> thing that happened after the repos were put up was that errant '4.6'
> branches were created by people making mistakes when pushing. So I
> dunno.

Personally I'd go without the prefix just because it
matches up better with our usual parlance of talking
about "the 4.6 branch" etc.


> Ian

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Best regards,
Eike Hein


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