Re: [Evolution-hackers] Missing svn tags for e-d-s / evolution 2.18 releases

[Gilles Dartiguelongue <dartigug esiee fr>]

Le lundi 21 mai 2007 �8:03 +0200, Frederic Crozat a �it :
> Le lundi 21 mai 2007 �9:24 +0200, Gilles Dartiguelongue a �it :
> > Le lundi 21 mai 2007 �7:19 +0200, Frederic Crozat a �it :
> > > Hi Evolution / E-D-S maintainers,
> > > 
> > > it appears that since CVS to SVN migration, no evolution / e-d-s release
> > > was followed by a SVN tag creation in <module_name>/tags.
> > > 
> > > These tags are very useful for you, maintainers but also for
> > > contributors and vendors when they try to search for changes between
> > > releases.
> > > 
> > > Could you try to create those missing tags and make sure they are
> > > created when releasing new tarballs in the future (I guess somebody
> > > script was not migrated correctly to SVN ;) ?
> > > 
> > > Thanks you in advance.
> > 
> > in fact it seems evolution uses branches over tags
> > 
> > evolution stable branch can be found at :
> >  http://svn.gnome.org/svn/evolution/branches/gnome-2-18
> 
> Branches and tags are different beast :
> -branches are used to do developement for a particular release of GNOME
> (here 2.18.x series)
> -tags are pointing each release (ie tarball generation), regardless of
> branches.
> 
sorry I was unclear. I meant that afaics, evolution never tagged
releases, or something definitely got lost in the cvs->svn transition.
-- 
Gilles Dartiguelongue <dartigug esiee fr>