[OSGeo-Edu] Subversion folder strategy for educational material

[Helena Mitasova]

On May 8, 2008, at 10:28 PM, Charlie Schweik wrote:

> Alex (and Landon):
>
> Thanks *very much* for your responses to my posting. It makes me feel
> like people are out there! (A *friendly* jab folks... I know there are
> some very interested people on this list, and some who are hard at  
> work
> on educational content that might eventually be contributed...
> right? ;-) The next OSGeo conference is coming fast... time is the
> enemy... :-) )
>
> On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 22:33 -0700, Alex Mandel wrote:
>> Trunk
>>   - Institution
>>     - Course
>> Tags or Release
>>   - Institution
>>     - Course Name and Version 1 of Final Release (say the 2008  
>> version)
>>     - Course Name and Version 2 of Final Release (say the 2009  
>> version)
>
> I'm an (old now) former professional programmer, but did not know the
> meaning of "trunk" (as development version) and "branch" as past
> releases. So for edu material I'm wondering if it would be more
> understandable if we used this:
>
> Under_Development
>    - Institution
>    - Course
> Past_Releases
>    - Institution
>       - Course name and Version 1 of final release
>       - Course name and Version 2 of final release
>
> Does anyone object to this Subversion folder strategy? Can we proceed?

Charlie

- should we use Releases or Final_Releases instead of Past_Releases?
Past indicates old, potentially obsolete,
so my first reaction was "where is the place for the latest
finished version?" - apparently it is in Past_Releases if I  
understand it correctly.

Helena
>
> Thanks all. Cheers!
>
> Charlie
>
>
>
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