[ZOO-PSC] release tags

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 16:31, Jeff McKenna
<jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
>
> Hello PSC,
>
> I just noticed that we haven't been tagging our SVN repository for each
> ZOO Project release (notice the empty directory
> http://svn.zoo-project.org/svn/tags/ as compared to the MapServer one
> https://svn.osgeo.org/mapserver/tags/).  These tags are snapshots of the
> code at the time of release, and are a nice easy way to get a specific
> version of the software at any time.

Those tags are very important indeed! Here the GRASS scheme which also
includes the date for convenience:
https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/

> I propose that we begin to create
> a tag for each ZOO Project release (here is how to do such a tag:
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.branchmerge.tags.html#svn.branchmerge.tags.mksimple)

Here the instructions for a scripted approach (for lazy releasers like me):
https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/trunk/doc/howto_release.txt

which could be adapted easily for ZOO.

cheers
Markus

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