Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: ANN: Linux Kernel Arch Repository

[Miles Bader]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 05:31:24PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> > The `pre' and `test' series are really not branches in any strong sense,
> > they're tweaks on the version number (essentially a sort of negative
> > final component).  Linus releases a linear stream of kernels, whereas
> > the term branch implies at least the possibility of parallel development.
> 
> But then somebody can't check out a tree and have the latest release
> tree or the latest pre tree.

Sure you could, just use naming conventions such as Tom suggested in another
message on this thread.

> > Look, I know you did a lot of work on it, and I do feel a bit of cad
> > for jumping right up and bitching, but names _are_ important.  Call me
> > a pedant, whatever.
> 
> Well, it seems a little silly all the bitching you're doing about it
> now, since it's done and I'm *not* spending another week of tedium
> just because you don't like the name.  (Feel free to do it yourself)
> If there were an easy way to rename things in arch, I'd consider it.

I would be willing to work with you to write an archive-munging script to
change the names in your existing archive (I did something similar to
retroactively change my entire emacs archive from using explicit tags to
taglines, which I think is a harder problem).  I suppose one question is
whether the existing archive organization is such that a simple renaming
would yield the desired result.

I'm not really that concerned about whether your particular archive has bad
names or not (no one's forcing me to use it), more that if it becomes
popular, and people start referring to it / tagging it, then these broken
naming conventions will start to _spread_.

-Miles
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