SVN Restructure (thoughts and feelings)

[Sean Wheller]

On Wednesday 06 April 2005 17:03, Jerome Gotangco wrote:
> > <snip what="SeanWrote"/>
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> If I understand this right, because of the tool/renderer differences
> with GNOME (Yelp) and KDE (konqueror?) our end product xml will have
> different tags per desktop environment?

Not quite. We have stuff that is GNOME, KDE and GNU/LINUX.

Some stuff will only be in GNOME and therefore we can develop according to the 
GNOME specs and stds. The same for KDE. The GNU/Linux stuff is applicable to 
to both desktops and is more about CLI than GUI. Putting all into one basket 
can get confusing. Managing separately will be easier. We will still have our 
commons such as legalnotice, disclaimer, copyright etc.

> > <snip what="SeanWrote"/>
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> I think for the sanity of the team and the translators, and to  chart
> into new territory, the branch method sounds good to me.  We'll have
> the end result anyway. If I got Sean's explanation correctly, the next
> documentation release after 5.10 would be branched again?

Again, not quite. A bit about SVN repos structures.

You know about trunk/
What you don't know is that there are other folders relative to trunk/

The first is tags/ - here we make a copy of releases where they are preserved 
for posterity.

The next is branches/ - here developers can make a copy of code and work 
without impacting on developers in trunk/ Branches are used when the changes 
are expected to be intrusive or are not relevant to the core work being done 
in trunk/ Changes in trunk and Branches can be merged between one another.

So we do not branch at 5.10, we tag.

In this case we are asking people if the want a branch because the restructure 
is intrusive.


-- 
Sean Wheller
Technical Author
sean at inwords.co.za
http://www.inwords.co.za
Registered Linux User #375355
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