Re: ggv has been branched

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

tis 2005-06-07 klockan 18:50 -0600 skrev Gary Ekker:
> > 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.

Thanks, Gary. The translation status pages for GNOME 2.10 have now been
updated to show the new ggv gnome-2-10 branch.


Christian