[GRASS-dev] Create new branch from trunk for temporal GIS integration

[Markus Metz]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Soeren Gebbert
<soerengebbert at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2011/8/23 Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org>:
>>>> The reason why i would like to create a branch is the experimental
>>>> character of the implementation.
>> ...
>>>> The goal is not to break grass and its functionality, but as i am not
>>>> absolutely sure about the implementation, i can not assure this.
>>>>
>>>> Using trunk i must be much more careful and disciplined .... making it
>>>> harder to be creative.
>>>
>>> in this case I could imagine special branch but only for a short-term
>>> period, in other words merge to trunk ASAP.
>>
>> Soeren, would you be able to keep "your" branch in sync with the pace
>> of changes happening in trunk?
>
> Thats the idea, to have a temporary trunk for time integration being
> in sync with the main trunk. So the
> merge of the temporal extension into trunk will be much easier.
>
I had a private branch of trunk for more than a year when developing
and testing new vector topology. It was not always easy to keep it
working, although I only had to svn up to get in sync with the
official trunk. This is not so easy when creating a real branch of
trunk in svn. But if you feel more comfortable with a separate branch
for experimenting then do it. I wanted to warn, but of course will
assist you whatever your decision.

Markus M


> The branch should only exist for experimenting and rapid development
> and merged ASAP.
>
> Best regards
> Soeren
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