On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Colin Guthrie<gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Felipe Contreras at 25/06/09 00:54 did gyre and gimble: >> >> Do you think it's difficult to decide where "stable" should point to? >> 0.9.15.1 or 0.2.1 >> >> "stable" should point to the recommended stable version to use. > > Depending on needs, that may not be a single version, so this doesn't hold > true. The fact that "stable" points to 0.9.15.2 doesn't prevent to make a 0.9.14.4 releae. At any given point there's only one *recommended* stable version. >> If somebody wants to have "$version-stable" then I say it should be in >> a separate repository. > > Why? A tag is "free". For something as big as the kernel it makes sense, for > pulseaudio it's totally unnecessary and pointless maintenance overhead. 1000 tags might not create a lot of noise because tags are not used so often, but you are saying "$version-stable" should be a branch; 1000 branches will create noise. I don't know about you, but I run 'git branch -a' pretty often. > Anyway, this discussion is moot. There is not going to be a single "stable" > branch upstream anyway, so there is no point in labouring the point. Feel > free to maintain your own and make it available - that's the beauty of DVCS > after all :) Again: >> If somebody wants to have "$version-stable" then I say it should be in >> a separate repository. Why taint an otherwise clean repository with old branches that few people would use? That is my opinion. -- Felipe Contreras
