[Rhythmbox-devel] Re: Rhythmbox branching

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

ons 2003-11-26 klockan 05.38 skrev Colin Walters:
> > The only reason the translation status pages currently displays HEAD for
> > rhythmbox is that rhythmbox seems to change stable branch/branch
> > intended for translators every other week, and that I myself is not able
> > to keep up with changing that information all the time. Thus, keeping it
> > constantly at HEAD instead of a possibly already obsoleted or soon
> > obsoleted branch seems to be the safer choice.
> 
> Ok.  Well, it's not too complicated; we generally only have a stable
> branch and an unstable branch at any one time.  This is similar to how
> various modules have a gnome-2-4 branch and HEAD.  Right?

Yes, absolutely, except that no other module (and we do quite a lot of
those!) changes branches as often as rhythmbox. At least not branches
that translators need to care about.


> Presently the "stable" branch is RHYTHMBOX-0_6 and unstable is HEAD.  I
> doubt this will change for quite a while.

Ok, I'll send you instructions for updating the branch info of the
translation status pages.


Christian