Re: [boost] [SVN]Best Practices for developers using SVN

From: Douglas Gregor (dgregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-03 11:13:04

David Abrahams wrote:
> on Thu Aug 02 2007, Doug Gregor <dgregor-AT-osl.iu.edu> wrote:
>   
>> At one point, I thought we could fix this problem with a stable  
>> branch based on 1.34.1, from which future releases would occur. Now,  
>> I'm convinced that is the absolutely wrong approach.  
>>     
>
> Are you saying that 1.35 shouldn't be based on 1.34.1, or is it
> something else? 
I don't know what to do about 1.35.0. We need to get it out sooner 
rather than later, and it seems that the build-it-from-1.34.1 approach 
is the only way that's going to happen.

It's a band-aid, not a long-term solution, and it hurts us to prolong 
the trunk/release divergence.

>  You said yourself that our trunk is a mess.
>   
Yes, and we need to fix the trunk, not devise elaborate processes to 
isolate the "civilized world" of releases from the "wild west" of the 
development trunk.

The title of this thread is "best practices" but the discussion has used 
the term "policy". A best practice is a suggestion that developers are 
free to ignore; a policy is a requirement that will somehow be enforced. 
Which one are we discussing?

    - Doug