CVS layout proposal

[Benedikt Meurer]

On Tue, 15, Jul 2003, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:

> > Although the renaming of directories seems in order, the idea of
> > having separate branches with active code has been tried before (see
> > xfce-stable & xfce-devel). What happened back then was that xfce-devel
> > rapidly fell into disuse. My 0.02 cents is that static tarballs for
> > releases is the best for end users. CVS is for developers and users
> > wishing to help with development by testing and submitting bug
> > reports. 
> 
> We will always have tarballs for releases. There's no question about
> that.
> 
> I'd like to be able to make a distinction between bugfix-releases and
> new-feature/big changes releases. But you do have a point about our
> limited resources ...
> 
> How about leaving it up to the maintainer if he (hmm, no she yet ...)
> needs an extra development branch. Personally I need it for the panel
> when I'm going to turn it into a gtk widget. I will need test 4.1.x
> release as well, because the changes will be quite large. I'd like to be
> able to do bugfix-only releases for the current code-base.

/me too.

> 	Jasper

Benedikt

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