[Axiom-developer] SCM discussion (silver branch?)

[Frederic Lehobey]

Hi,

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:28:09AM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Ralf Hemmecke <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> | > It is good to have unstable branch where experiments are
> |  > conducted.

> |  > but I think we need one branch that is unstable but not too unstable.
> | 
> | That's a good point. It sounds like a three stage system.
> | 
> | A golden branch that will be the stable version. (axiom--main--1)
> | A silver branch that will be the almost stable branch (that is where you
> |      opted for maintaining)
> | Several experimental branches, where one person (or a group of people)
> |      agrees on how they do development until the experiment becomes
> |      resonably stable to be ready for the silver branch.

> | > I'm willing to take responsability for that, but I need general
> | > agreement from the community (especially from Tim) for having that
> | > sort branch with the intent that patches applied there will move to
> | > the stable branch when they have survived enough testing and satisfy
> | > The Master (Tim!) taste.

This is somewhat the Linus Torvalds / Andrew Morton approach for
developing the Linux kernel.

> There are tools to convert CVS repositories to SVN ones; I don't know
> whether similar tools exist for converting tla archive to SVN.  The

See Tailor: http://www.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Tailor

How hard is it to settle a public subversion server?  Do you have
access to the appropriate hosting resources?

Best regards,
Frederic
(still believing that patches matter more than the tools)
http://lehobey-rennes.dyndns.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=doc:veille:gestion_de_code_source