reshaping svn structure

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 05:58:16PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> I'd just want to point that it's a quite bad idea to develop 
> in "branches". we did that for KDE, but it's awful, because everyone 
> expect to see the "last" version be in the trunk (not to mentione the 
> really hard merges). In KDE we only branch before any new "big" 
> release, or for the branch of packages that is in stable.

IMO what we are using right now is the precise pattern where branches
are useful: we are developing vim7 which is not yet released, but still
we can't completely give up vim since some urgent update might be needed
(e.g. security) before vim7 get released.

Regarding people "expecting" something is just a matter of documenting
stuff (always IMO of course). For the moment we are just a few
developers, if we grow (which I doubt) we can just write a document with
our packaging practice and point people to it.

> I reckon vim7 is not strictly in unstable atm, we may suffer a "bit" 
> when it'll change.

That's true and unfortunately svn is not quite handy when it come to
moves and merge.  Fortunately such transition wont happen that often.

Still, have you any better proposal for the svn structure which easily
fits with the configuration of svnmailer? I failed to find a better one.

Cheers.

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