Re: new CVS module: bonobo-extra

[Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com>]

ISO-8859-1 wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 04 Jun 2001 21:40:21 +0200, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> > > What are the commit rules?
> >
> > The are not 100% clear yet ;-)
>
> Well, I think we should immediately begin with splitting into two
> branches. A stable, releasable branch that applications could develop
> against, and a development branch for APIs in the design phase.
>
> Also, it would be nice if we could keep strong versioning guidelines for
> everything in the stable branch. This means:
>
> - generating a new unique OAFIDs for all interface changes
>
> - keeping all old locked/released interface implementations in the repo,
> or maybe just keeping a strict CVS tag policy to get at deprecated
> versions.
>
> However, maybe I am missing the point of bonobo-extra. I see it as a set
> of components that could be less general than those in bonobo, but still
> useful for more than one application.

Yes, we can do that. But IMO all components we add should be considerable
stable, so that we can make releases. Adding an unstable branch makes not
much sense (to much work).

> But maybe you see it as a development sandbox for things to stabilize
> before being put into bonobo proper...

Yes, that was the primary intention.

- Dietmar