Re: Our Gnome CVS Structure

["Djihed Afifi" <djihedlists at googlemail dot com>]

Nadim,

We are currently not working on HEAD. We are currently working on 2.16
How do you propose maintaing 2.16 and subsequent 2.16 releases while
going after HEAD in the future?

We need versioning.

Djihed



On 19/07/06, Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> --- Djihed Afifi <djihedlists at googlemail dot com> wrote:
> > I think our Gnome CVS structure should be adapted to make it easy for
> > the maintainer/translators to maintain the translations. Currently,
> > the CVS contains translations for 2.14 directly under gnome. We should
> > adapt a version friendly structure that maps directly with
> > http://l10n-status.gnome.org , this way
> >
> > gnome/2.14
> > gnome/2.16
> > etc
> > gnome/HEAD
> >
> > Branching each time Gnome branch their translation project.
>
> We should only be working on 'HEAD' and as such we should only have the
> files that pertain to HEAD on our CVS.  I believe Arafat.M followed the
> same structure (which is now simply dated).
>
> In short, there is no need to keep old(er) data once its uploaded to the
> mothership (ie. Gnome's repositories).  So it sounds like we simply need
> to sync-up to Gnome's HEAD files in earnest.  If the decision is made to
> work on what is beyond HEAD (a future release if such files exist) then
> those files alone should be uploaded (keep in mind that we are very
> short-handed and as such I don't think we can afford to work on multiple
> versions of the same application).
>
> Salam.
>
>  - Nadim
>
>
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