[Nagiosplug-devel] Re: Release tags in CVS (was: Compiling plugins for Tru64)

[Karl DeBisschop]

On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 09:03, Voon, Ton wrote:
> A branch called r1_3_x (or r1_3) would have cleared up the confusion, at
> least in my head. I see the branch name as the eventual release, whereas you
> see it as from the release onwards. Te-marr-toe / te-mae-toe.

I definitely see your point. And you are right that it's not totally
clear.

But remember, a branch is just a special tag.

There had to be a r1_3_0 tag - that was the actual release. I thought
that fewer tags would forestall the question 'What is the difference
between the r1_3_x tag and the r1_3_0 tag (there would be no difference,
except you would need to know that r1_3_x was a branch and r1_3_0 was
not, even though they referred to exactly the same set of files at
exactly the same time).

Given that, I'm still not sure a r1_3_x branch would have been any less
confusing. It just would have confused different people in different
ways.

--
Karl

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Karl DeBisschop [SMTP:karl at debisschop.net]
> > Sent:	Wednesday, March 19, 2003 12:49 PM
> > To:	NagiosPlug Devel
> > Subject:	[Nagiosplug-devel] RE: [Nagiosplug-help] RE: [Nagios-users]
> > Compiling plugins for Tr u64
> > 
> > On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 07:40, Voon, Ton wrote:
> > > Would it make sense to call the branch r1_3_1 instead of r1_3_0? Have a
> > > fixed tag for a particular release and a floating branch with the name
> > of
> > > the eventual release. Shall we do this for release 1.3.1 onwards?
> > 
> > The branch could have been tagged r1_3_x - but since the brach was the
> > same point as the 1.3.0 release, I elected to call the branch afetr the
> > release.
> > 
> > The next bug-fix release will be 1.3.1 -- it will be created from the
> > r1_3_0 brachs and will be tagged as r1_3_1 (but it will not be a branch.
> > If a bug fix release is required after that, it will also be created on
> > the r1_3_0 branch and will be called 1.3.2
> > 
> > Make sense?
> > 
> > If I follow your suggestion, we would need to decide in advance exactly
> > how many bug fix releases might be allowed on a particualr stable
> > branch, which seems difficult.
> > 
> 
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