[development] new CVS branch/tag conventions (was Re: tagadelic 'backport' for 4.7)

[Derek Wright]

On Oct 3, 2006, at 10:56 PM, Dries Buytaert wrote:
>
> On 10/3/06, Derek Wright <drupal at dwwright.net> wrote:
>> i think we're pretty much decided on that naming
>> convention (-- as the delimiter between the core API branch and the
>> contrib module's major revision number)
>
> I'm OK with that, if things are set in stone.

well, that's the question...  at the talk i gave at drupalcon (http:// 
drupal.org/node/86694), everyone hated using an underscore '_' for  
this.  e.g.:

"DRUPAL-4-7_1" as the 1st development branch compatible with 4.7.x, and
"DRUPAL-4-7_1-0" as the 4.7.x-1.0 release tag

there were a few alternatives proposed during the discussion for a  
different delimiter than '_', such as '-V-', '-R-', '-REV-', etc.

at barcamp, when i had a chance to speak to dries about it, he  
suggested (and i like) just using '--'.  so, here are the viable  
contenders for branch and tag names:

1) "DRUPAL-4-7--1" and "DRUPAL-4-7--1-0"

2) "DRUPAL-4-7-V-1" and "DRUPAL-4-7-V-1-0"

3) "DRUPAL-4-7-R-1" and "DRUPAL-4-7-R-1-0"

4) "DRUPAL-4-7-REV-1" and "DRUPAL-4-7-REV-1-0"

5) "DRUPAL-4-7_1" and "DRUPAL-4-7_1-0"  (just for comparison, this  
isn't a contender)

this is your last chance to object to #1 being what we use.  if  
anyone strongly protests (with a better suggestion), please speak up  
now or forever hold your peace.  i don't want any sniveling  
complaints about this in 3 weeks when it's all live and you have to  
start using it, since it'll be too late to change at that point.

thanks,
-derek


p.s. aside from this detail about the delimiter, for a pretty  
thorough but concise summary of how the new release system will work,  
you should read the 1-page handout i passed out at the druaplcon talk:
http://drupal.org/files/new_release.pdf
again, speak now, or love every bit of it and forever shut-up about  
your complaints. ;)


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p.p.s. it doesn't *really* matter, but if a module's version number  
is "4.7.x-1.0", the "4.7.x" part is clearly the API-compatibility  
version.  the "0" is obviously the patch level.  what should we call  
the "1"?  is that the major revision or the minor revision?  in my  
email quoted above, i called it "major", but does it make more sense  
to refer to this as the "minor" revision, and think of the API- 
compatibility stuff as the "major" revision?  just curious what folks  
think, if anyone else actually cares about this. ;)
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