On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 09:49:48AM -0800, Nadim Shaikli wrote: > --- Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir arabeyes org> wrote: > > > > When you ignore branches you automatically lose work that has been done on > > the previous branch (instead of preserving it and moving on with another > > branch, say if magically completed, one can move around them). For example, > > we don't have the 3.0 translations.. we are on 3.1. That means, our entire > > CVS does not have 3.0 translations. > > > > Initially, that was fine because it didn't really matter (we had little to > > maintain). Now, I seriously don't recommend throwing away work and merging > > with new branches as opposed to creating those branches locally on > > arabeyes cvs. > > I disagree - I would tend to think that NO work gets lost or removed. All > the previous versions/branches are uploaded and available from the main > KDE site (as its available in the various distros as well). I think if > we are opting to maintain multiple versions as once we run the risk of > confusing people even further (do remember, that lots of people already > view the current single-branch process as "complicated"). I'm not > intimately involved in the translation projects, but thought I'd make > that point clear (ie. its your (translators) decision :-) I view arabeyes' > CVS translation files as bleeding-edge (ie. it will mirror that which is > about to get released since all those already released already have their > own bundled translated files). > No confusion needed. HEAD is always HEAD.. having branches doesn't affect that. And yes, I may have been a little misleading. Nothing is _lost_.. but it is certainly not maintained in the Arabeyes CVS (yes, it's all in KDE's, and we can easily import them). later -- ------------------------------------------------------- | Mohammed Elzubeir | Visit us at: | | | http://www.arabeyes.org/ | | Arabeyes Project | Homepage: | | Unix the 'right' way | http://fakkir.net/~elzubeir/| ------------------------------------------------------- --- Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=elzubeir
Attachment:
pgp00022.pgp
Description: PGP signature