[Axiom-developer] Re: trunk

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Ralf Hemmecke wrote:

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| I think we all agree, that the current Gold is axiom--main--1--patch-50
| (and I don't know whether this has another version number like 3.0 or so).
| 
| Silver is something that should be "reasonably stable". Maybe we require
| that is should at least always compile. However, it might contain things
| that do not work.

I agree.

| Currently, Tim decides what goes into Silver (which meanwhile became
| sourceforge:trunk).
| 
| People should be able do checkout Silver and investigate whether it
| compiles on their machines. Whether they find bugs, etc.
| 
| At some point in time we agree that Silver is sufficiently stable so
| that it can simply be *called* "Gold". Now a snapshot of Silver will be
| moved to sourceforge:gold/Axiom-4.0 and development is going on at
| sourceforge:trunk.

I agree.

| Many people have there private or public branches (which should branch
| from Silver). Development there is completely up to them. If those
| people think that some idea is ready to be included to Silver, they
| should announce it and provide a patch or command how to get the
| changeset into Silver. (In my opinion the patch should be a diff against
| the current Silver and not against Gold, but maybe I just have not
| enough worked in such big projects.

I agree on all counts.

| Before changes go to Silver, Tim has to approve them. (Actually, to
| remove a bottleneck, we should introduce some voting system, whether a
| particular patch should go into Silver or not.)

Except for the voting system, I agree.


-- Gaby