On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 16:57, Kristopher Gamrat <pikidalto@...> wrote: > Hi, > I am noticing that some of the projects in svn have a "master" > directory while others have the codename for the release of that > distro. This has me wandering what's the preferred way to organize > svn. > Your choice with your distro. > Ark doesn't apply a codename and is doing packages for it's upcoming > release. The patches in the past with KDE3 would change occaisionally > with each 3.x release (e.g. 3.0 patches probably wouldn't work with > 3.4). Use the year name. > > Considering this, I'm thinking maybe have a Master where the most > recent patches and rpm spec go, and copy that over to a release (e.g. > 2011.1 for this year, 2012.1 for next year) each time we release. > While I would approve that idea, that is bad if you do not have automatic update. Especially when bugfixes and enhancements need to be packaged. Remember, newer versions of a distro may be different than older versions of a distro. -- later, Robert Xu