Disagree. <br><br>it is very standard practice for people jumping into a new open source project to want to see HEAD (or trunk or whatever) or for people's first interest in CVS is to see "what's coming". Most people that are interested in checking out a specific version (like a stable version) are more advanced or experienced with CVS already. Someone's first jump into CVS is not going to be doing so in an effort to make upgrading easier. <br>
<br>My 2 cents at least. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Shai Gluskin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shai@content2zero.com">shai@content2zero.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi gang,<br><br>This is about <a href="http://drupal.org/node/320" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/node/320</a><br><br>The title of the page is: <i>Checking out from the main repository<br><br></i>The assumption on that page is that you want to check out HEAD. There is one small section which says, "If you want to check out a specific version of Drupal..."<br>
<br>I believe the assumption of the page should be opposite, that you want to check out a specific version of Drupal. That is how you can check out the latest stable release.<br><br>The use-case for checking out HEAD is for core committers or folks testing patches to core. That is very important. However, I think the vast majority of people wanting to get their feet wet in CVS (and therefore coming to this handbook page) want to check out the latest <i>stable release</i> in order to make it easier to upgrade the next time an updated stable release is deployed.<br>
<br>I'd like to edit the page so that the primary instructions are for checking out a specific version and the secondary instructions are for folks wanting to checkout HEAD.<br><br>I thought this was a big enough change that I wanted to run it by others.<br>
<br>Thanks,<br><font color="#888888"><br>Shai<br>
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