Re: [Axiom-developer] patches

[Ralf Hemmecke]

> > I agree.  I'm a bit disappointed that we don't branch our
> > experiements/works from a single "referential" source.

> I agree too.

Good.

> As I explained in an earlier email, on Tuesday
> I updated the 'bookvol1' and 'ComputerTutorial' pamphlets in
> book--main--1 on the Axiom Wiki directly from the src/doc
> directory of the Silver branch.

Super. BUT...
If I haven't read the mailing list. I wouldn't even find
http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/book--main--1/FrontPage

If there is a reference to a source it MUST appear on the 
http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/AxiomSources page. Otherwise nobody will 
find it. I even believe that it would be enough to have axiom--test--1 
on the wiki. Cannot you merge your book--main--1 with axiom--test--1 and 
remove the wiki--book--main--1 thing? Furthermore there should be a SVN 
branch on sourceforge so that people who want to contribute to the book 
could also do this via SVN. Both the SVN branch and the wiki-axiom 
sources should be in sync. I guess that might be a bit hard, since svn 
doen't feature star-merge.

> Then I applied the patches
> supplied by Frithjof Schulze. So now these files on the wiki
> are ready for online editing. Later we will merge these back
> to Silver and then from Silver to gold. Isn't that how it's
> supposed to work?

Right, but I would rather like to restrict the attribute "silver" to the 
SVN trunk. All the other branches on sourceforge are in a testing phase 
and only enter silver (=trunk) if they are at least reasonably stable. 
And they can enter it only by a request of the maintainer of the testing 
branch. (Which also means there should never be a branch that has no 
responsible person attached.)

Ralf