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

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-23 21:42:16

David Abrahams wrote:
> on Thu Aug 23 2007, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Robert Ramey wrote:
>>> David Abrahams wrote:
>>>>> To me - the "release" in tags/release is redundant
>>>> What if I want to create a tag unrelated to any release?
>>> Like what? Truth is, it didn't occur to me that there would be any reason
>>> to create tag other than for a release.
>> Boost.Jam for example 
>> <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/browser/tags/jam>, or Boost.Build, or 
>> just about anything that is released on a different schedule than the 
>> Boost releases.
> 
> Or just to mark some significant point in my library's development
> history.  That's what tags are for.

Perhaps mirror the branches organization scheme?

                        tags/
                           ...
                           release/
                              ...
                              1_34_1
                              1_35_0
                           libs/
                              ...
                              python/
                                 rev_2
                                 ...
                              serialization/
                                 before_code_refactoring
                              ...

                        branches/
                           release
                           libs/
                              ...
                              python
                              serialization
                              ...

--Beman