kdesupport discussion on release-team list

[Benoît Jacob]

Hi,

I just found out these discussions on the release-team list, to which I am not 
subscribed:

http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/release-team/2008-August/002395.html
http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/release-team/2008-August/002433.html

My questions are:

1. Is /trunk/kdesupport going to be no longer recommended to build KDE SVN? I 
mean e.g. on the techbase page,
http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4/Prerequisites#kdesupport
Any plan to update that page to no longer recommend to 
checkout /trunk/kdesupport?

2. What is the difference between a "tag" and a "branch" ? I seem to see a lot 
of overlap between /tags and /branches.

3. So what is the "tag" that I should create for version x.y of eigen: is 
it /tags/eigen/x.y ?

4. We are about to release a beta version of eigen but the 2.0 final will have 
to wait about 6-10 more weeks. Shall I still create a tag as soon as 
possible? /tags/eigen/2.0-beta1 ? Or wait until 2.0 to create a tag?

5. After we create a tag does that mean that we can do whatever we want 
in /trunk/kdesupport/eigen2 without risking to break compilation for other 
people? This is related to question 1. As long as we tell people to use 
kdesupport, making tags is rather pointless.

Cheers,
Benoit


> Howdy,
>
> If you are a developer of a kdesupport project, please make sure
> that your latest-and-greatest stable version is tagged
> in our subversion tags repository.
>
> The "lastest-and-greatest stable version" should be the version
> that we need to use when building trunk.
>
> If you need help with this, please send a note to release-team ML.
>
> -Allen