[GRASS5] GRASS 5.0.0 stable release branch started!

[Markus Neteler]

Hello Justin,

I fear we need Bernhard's advice. I am not very sure how
to proceed. I expect that we fix bugs in release branch and
merge them back (later?) to the exp/main branch.

At least I have to learn this branching thing...

 Markus

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 03:11:48PM +0700, Justin Hickey wrote:
> Hi Markus
> 
> Markus Neteler wrote:
> > today I have started the GRASS 5.0.0stable branch... :-)
> > Beforehand I have tagged the release.
> 
> Great news!!
> 
> > TAG="grassreleasebranch_5_0_0"
> > using cvs tag.
> > 
> > BRANCH="grassreleasebranch_5_0_0"
> > using cvs tag -b
> 
> So to check out the branch code we do
> 
> cvs co -b grassreleasebranch_5_0_0
> 
> or something like that?
> 
> > If I got it, the "main" tree is remaining experimental and all 
> > bugfixes to go into the stable release have to go into the release
> > branch. Like that you can continue to check in experimental code as
> > well as bugfixes.
> 
> Would it be best to commit bugfixes only to the release branch and then
> merge the branches back into the "main" tree? Or is having developers
> commit bugfixes to both the release branch and "main" tree better?
>  
> Now to identify bugs we would like to see fixed. Should we start with
> the ones that have RC status in the BUGS file?
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Jazzman (a.k.a. Justin Hickey)  e-mail: jhickey at hpcc.nectec.or.th
> High Performance Computing Center
> National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC)
> Bangkok, Thailand
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