What about provide some metadata for branches ?

[Jan Hudec]

On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 13:15:26 +0100, Nicholas Allen wrote:
> It sounds good to me! From an implementation point of view I wonder if
> it makes sense to wait for versioned properties. This meta data could
> then just be properties on the root directory.

This suggestion does not sound right to me.

For one thing, versioned properties themselves now seem to me like a wrong
thing.  Metadata is just data, so I now think metadata is best served by
special files (and filtering when reading/writing them from/to disk).

Besides I am not sure this data should be versioned. Basically they don't
describe the revisions, but rather the branch at particular location. Ie. at
http://bazaar-vcs.org/bzr/bzr.dev it would say it's mainline for bazaar, but
if I branch it, my branch should not say that.

> Nick
> 
> Simon Rozet wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am thinking about writing a plugin who add metadata capabilities
> > to bzr branches.
> > 
> > Here is some metadata example, 
> > inspired by the [DOAP spec](http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-osproj3/) :
> > 
> > - Name
> > - Description
> > - Developer
> > - Homepage
> > - Mailing-list
> > - Programming language
> > - ...
> > 
> > We could imagine something like :
> > 
> >   ~/codes/bzr$ bzr meta
> >   Name : Bazaar
> >   Description : Bazaar will help you to be the master of the univers
> >   ...
> > 
> > and a nice GUI ala gcommit to set theses meta.
> > 
> > So, what do you think about that ? Am I completly crazy ?
> > 
> > P.S. : please excuse my bad english :(
> > 
> 
-- 
						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
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