[Zope-Coders] Symbolic CVS tags ?

[Ken Manheimer]

I'm going to be out for a few days, so will miss the discussion about
this, but i want to chime in and say that something to this effect is
probably a Really Good Idea.  And whatever is done, there should
probably be a space carved out in http://dev.zope.org/CVS for the
"CurrentLandmarks", probably prominent in CommittersGuidelines.
(Maybe there's a more conventional name for it than CurrentLandmarks,
i can miss the target on that kind of thing.)

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Steve Alexander wrote:

> As an occassional Zope 2 contributor, one of the things I find confusing 
> is knowing which branches to apply fixes / features to at a particular 
> time, especially if I've not been keeping up with current release schedules.
> 
> Would it be possible to (somehow) have "symbolic" tag names in cvs, for 
> example:
> 
>    HEAD
>    current_unstable
>    current_maintenance
> 
> Then, the instructions for contributors could include these symbolic 
> names, and there would be must less confusion.
> 
> Part a release manager's job would be to re-tag branches as necessary to 
> keep the symbolic tags correct as releases move on.

-- 
Ken
klm@zope.com