[development] Tagging and branching, again.

[Robert Douglass]

I might add to this that there are a number of 4.6 modules that aren't 
tagged 4-6 either. Node relativity was one of them and I recently tagged 
it because eventually I'm going to complete the port to 4.7. The danger 
here is that if someone starts working on the HEAD version, say to 
upgrade to 4.7 compatibility, and there isn't a 4-6 tag, then the 4-6 
version is all but lost to anyone without rather advanced CVS skills. 
This is like letting museums and opera houses fall down and rot because 
nobody bothers to paint them.

-Robert

Steven Wittens wrote:
> A recent commit to core broke a lot of 4.7 contrib modules [1]. I 
> wanted to patch all contrib modules automatically to save authors the 
> effort of making this change individually. The plan was to take all 
> 4.7 tagged modules, apply the change, then apply the same diff to HEAD.
>
> However, of the 74 files in HEAD which might need the change, only 16 
> are present in 4.7. And I know from looking through those 74 files 
> that there are plenty more that are 4.7 compatible (or at least intend 
> to be).
>
> So I revisited Dries' list of the Top 20 most downloaded projects from 
> a couple months ago [2]. The results are simply shocking. Of the 12 
> modules on the list, only 3 are available for 4.7. The top 3 modules 
> all appear to have 4.7 versions in HEAD, and none of them are tagged 
> properly.
>
> This has to change immediately. If Drupal 4.7.0 were to be released 
> now (which would be true if it weren't for some late-reported issues), 
> there would be a riot for all the modules that did not have clear 4.7 
> versions. And as my situation shows, it is a huge bother for all 
> developers too.
>
> The tagging docs are still at:
> http://drupal.org/node/17570
> It takes at most a minute to do. Do so now.
>
> Steven Wittens
>
> [1] http://drupal.org/node/5371
> [2] http://drupal.org/node/25704
>