Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom silver branch

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Ralf Hemmecke <address@hidden> writes:

| Hi Gaby,
| 
| On 04/07/2006 11:54 AM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > Hello,
| >   As you now, Tim set up an SVN server for accessing the "silver
| > branch"
| > of Axiom on sourceforge
| >     http://sf.net/projets/axiom
| > I would like to discuss the organization of branches and procedures.
| 
| > That repository as far as I can tell contains all of current Axiom
| > sources.
| 
| As Tim said, its a copy of the CVS stuff. I am not completely sure but
| I would bet that this is the same as
| 
|    address@hidden
| 
| However, from the svn-log I only find that there is a "patch-45". No
| idea to what that corresponds.

Hmm, I would investigate further.  I also contains the branch "daly",
which I thought was the Tim's current version of the gold branch.

| My tla mirror of axiom--main--1 tells me
| 
|      address@hidden/axiom--main--1--patch-47
|        book volume 1, cleanup
|        Tim Daly <address@hidden>
|        2006-01-02 18:03:49 GMT
|      address@hidden/axiom--main--1--patch-46
|        book volume 5, bug fixes
|        Tim Daly <address@hidden>
|        2005-10-31 01:33:51 GMT
|      address@hidden/axiom--main--1--patch-45
|        merge aldor patches, fix C code
|        Tim Daly <address@hidden>
|        2005-09-04 15:51:14 GMT
| 
| Hmmm.
| 
| > I propose the following -- meaning I would appreciate feedback from
| > you -- for organizing the SVN repository:
| >   * have axiom/trunk contains the silver branch sources
| 
| Fine. You could even call it "axiom/silver" and "axiom/gold", if you
| want? ;-) But maybe that confuses people who are used to the "trunk",
| "branches", "tag" suggestion of the subversion people.

yes; repository/branches/xxx is close to what people read in tutorials
and books on svn so I would not like to introduce an extra level, when
for most potential Axiom developers, the goal is not to know all the
arcanes of SVN.  I believe we should set it up in a way that they can
copy-n-paste commands with minimal changes to get started with hacking
on Axiom.

| 
| >   * create axiom/branches/gold to contain the sources for the "gold branch".
| 
| I actually ask myself whether this gold thing is needed here at all,
| since Tim is actually maintaining it. Do you want to have
| axiom--main--1
| just a "mirror" of Tim's axiom--main--1 thing?

I'm fine with leaving it entirely out if that is what the community
wants, especially Tim.

| >   * people interested in experiments based on the silver branch will
| >     create  their branches as axiom/branches/xxx, where "xxx" is the
| >     name of a specific branch.
| 
| Fine with me. But somehow I would wish for the policy that branches
| and their details must be linked from an AxiomWiki page. Or are there
| Sourceforge tools to maintain such a webpage?

I strongly favour the policy for branches, setup steps, and other
administrivia be documented so that potential contributors don't have
to "chase" the information.

As I said, I'm on a trip and I don't expect to much time and
connectivity to do that before two weeks.  But, I'm workign on it.

-- Gaby