Re: ggv has been branched



On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 00:40 +0200, Christian Rose wrote:

> I'm afraid the current branch name will be very confusing to many
> contributors, not at least translators, who work with many modules at
> the same time and rely on branches being named consistently.
> 
Understood.

> The policy (http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/for_maintainers.html) is
> that the branch name should indicate the stable GNOME release the branch
> is targeted at, which means the *latest* stable GNOME release the branch
> is targeted at, if it is supposed to cover many stable releases.
> Noone will never ever (hopefully) release a new version of GNOME 2.8,
> however naming a new branch "gnome-2-8" implies that you're working
> towards such a release, which I'm sure isn't the case. However, the
> branch name still indicates that.
> 
> So yes, if you could find a way to create a stable branch with the
> standard name "gnome-2-10", it would be *much* appreciated.
> 
There is now also a gnome-2-10 branch which will be used for the next
stable release, should the need arise.

-Gary



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