Re: [boost] Updated Development and Release Practices for 1.35.0

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-23 17:28:13

on Thu Aug 23 2007, "Robert Ramey" <ramey-AT-rrsd.com> wrote:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> on Thu Aug 23 2007, Beman Dawes <bdawes-AT-acm.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Wouldn't it be potentially less confusing for the release manager to
>>> move 1_35_0 from svn/boost/branches/release to svn/boost/release at
>>> the time of release? And since there would only be one release
>>> work-in-progress directory at a time under branches/release, the
>>> release level could be eliminated.
>>>
>>> So after 1.35.0 ships, the tree would look like:
>>>
>>>     svn/boost/
>>>
>>>        trunk/
>>>
>>>        tags/
>>>            ...
>>>            release/
>>>               ...
>>>               1_34_1
>>>               1_35_0
>>>        branches/
>>>            1_36_0
>>>            libraries/
>>>               python/
>>>               serialization/
>>>
>>
>> Sounds good to me.
>
> This sound good to me as well.  I do have a couple of observations
>
> To me - the "release" in tags/release is redundant 

What if I want to create a tag unrelated to any release?

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