Hello world, ------- Summary ------- 1) Starting with Drupal 6.x, branches in the contributions CVS repository will always contain the --N part of the branch name, to remind people that each release series belongs in its own branch. You can now create a DRUPAL-6--1 branch for the 6.x-1.* release series for your contributions. There will never be a DRUPAL-6 branch in the contributions repository (the repository itself prevents it). If you're Jeff Eaton and you already have 2 versions of your D6 modules ready ;) the 6.x-2.* code belongs in HEAD or in the DRUPAL-6--2 branch (also now open), not in DRUPAL-6--1. This change is only for DRUPAL-6--1 and beyond, the DRUPAL-5 branches in contrib are unaffected. 2) If you make "beta" or "rc" releases, the "extra" part of your tag can only contain upper case letters and numbers (no lowercase, hyphens, underscores, etc). So, these are valid: DRUPAL-6--1-0-BETA DRUPAL-6--1-0-BETA1 DRUPAL-6--1-0-RC1 These are not: DRUPAL-6--1-0-beta DRUPAL-6--1-0-BETA-1 DRUPAL-6--1-0-Beta-1 DRUPAL-6--1-0-RC_1 DRUPAL-6--1-0-rc1 Old tags that don't follow these rules will continue to exist. However, new tags, even for DRUPAL-5--*, will be disallowed if they don't match the new convention. ---------- Background ---------- More info about why I made these changes are here: 1) http://drupal.org/node/147493 2) http://drupal.org/node/147494 Discussion is now closed, but these contain a lot of good wisdom and motivation. If you have any doubts, please read these issues carefully and your concerns will almost certainly be addressed and resolved. --------- Handbooks --------- The following handbook pages are updated to reflect the new reality: http://drupal.org/handbook/cvs/quickstart http://drupal.org/handbook/cvs/branches-and-tags/contributions http://drupal.org/node/17570 I also updated the Contributed modules status - version 6.x wiki on g.d.o: http://groups.drupal.org/node/5036 If you happen to find another CVS handbook that has stale info, please either fix it yourself if you can, or create a documentation issue about it if you can't. Otherwise... Reply-To: /dev/null ;) Happy D6 porting! Cheers, -Derek (dww) p.s. Did I mention that this email is about changes that already happened which are no longer up for debate? This is not an RFC or proposal soliciting feedback. If you reply to this thread with "why did you do that?" or "I liked it better the old way..." you'll make a certain CVS admin very unhappy... and bad things happen when you do that. ;) If you think you don't like either of these changes, read the issues I point to above very carefully. If you still think these changes are a mistake, please find someone else to complain to, since a) you're wrong and b) I don't want to have to tell you that again. ;)