Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

root <address@hidden> writes:

| > It appears that we now have at least two "trunks" under SVN --
| > ignoring for the moment, all the variations under other SCMs.  That is
| > going to be more confusing to people already confused with the current
| > state of the affairs.  We need to agree on THE trunk.
| 
| well i'm in the process of merging the old SVN/trunk with axiom--silver--1
| so there will be only one SVN trunk again. the old SVN/trunk is effectively
| dead.

Ah, that is good to know!

| 
| >                                                        We also need to
| > agree about patch protocol.  From my perspective, much of what we
| > agreed on back in April 2006 still hold.  I would like to add one more
| > thing:  That patches to silver be "self-contained" in the sense each
| > patch deal with conceptually one thing -- except of course for merges
| > from branches to trunk where we have already set the policy I think.
| > The reason for that is that it makes it easy for people to select the
| > patches they want to see on their branches.
| 
| since silver patches are being released immediately it is likely that
| each changeset will be on a single topic in the future.

Great!

| what people
| do with their individual branches is up to them. the only issue arises
| when an SVN branch needs to be packaged as a changeset and merged into
| silver.

We are in violent agreement.

-- Gaby