To branch or not to branch

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Tuesday 11 April 2006 03:15, Matthew East wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 13:02 +0100, Dean Sas wrote:
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> > Matthew East wrote:
> > > Hi,
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> > > About this time last release cycle we branched the repo. Are we going
> > > to do it again? I don't really know much about this, so I'm cc:ing
> > > Daniel.
>
> Right, not many replies on this, but I think we should go for it. I
> suggest we branch today, and do the following from here to release:
>
> * translations to be added to the branch
> * unwanted icons to be deleted from the branch (the source package for
> ubuntu-docs is WAY too large)
> * any string freeze exceptions should be done both in the branch and in
> trunk (to save us merging later)
> * any new hotness for dapper+1 to be done in trunk.
> * edubuntu and xubuntu - these docs are not frozen yet, so I'd suggest
> that work on these carries on in trunk, and comes into the branch when
> the authors are ready.
> * release-notes - these are basically dapper specific documents, so I'd
> suggest these are worked on directly in the branch.
>
> Any thoughts on these?
>
> Matt
That seems to be how we did it last time with the move to brezzy to dapper.  I 
think we should stay consistent

Jonathan