I'm less than a noob. Trying to commit a patch for indexpage.module 4.6 got this message from the cvs: cvs commit: sticky tag `DRUPAL-4-6' for file `indexpage.module' is not a branch cvs [commit aborted]: correct above errors first! I've commited other patches to other modules for 4.6 before and got no problems. Is this anything related to your post? Can someone give me a quick hand on this? Thanks. Robert Garrigos Robert Douglass wrote:
A real mistake is being made by developers who have modules for 4.6, are updating them to 4.7, yet have not tagged them as 4.6. The first time I encountered this was with the devel module. I submitted a task request to lock the 4.6 version, but it hasn't been done: http://drupal.org/node/35584
Now I've encountered the same problem with the sections module. The sections module is great for solving a number of specific problems, and people like to use it. It used to work with 4.6, but now it doesn't. Why? Because the same version (1.9), painstakingly and lovingly updated to use the Forms Api, is now in both the 4-6 and 4-7 branches.
Disclaimer: I am a CVS noob. I have never tagged anything for 4.6 or 4.7, but I recently got instructions for Moshe on how to do this, and before I start porting any module to 4.7, I will make sure a 4.6 tag exists.
If we don't take care of this problem now, while we're still pre 4.7 release, it will just be harder later to go back and repair the damage. Don't let your 4.6 modules go extinct because you didn't tag them.
-Robert