CVS policy (was: Re: It's ARK2 time)

Tommy Kelly writes:

> If you have a minute I'd be grateful for a note of what your
> general CVS policy is (vis-a-vis branch, merge, tag, release 
> philosophy).

In the current situation (pre-release, small/tiny installed
user base, small/tiny developer base), the policy is "free
for all" :-)

In general, the plan is to do standard open-source stuff.
The HEAD is always the bleeding-edge-est development.  When
there is something to release/keep-stable (as just passed
with orig-ark1), we make a release branch and do any further
work on there.  I hope it doesn't get much more complicated
than that.

In passing: I am deeply *un*obsessed by version numbers;
however, I plan to do open-source standard x.y.z numbers,
where a change 'x' means "major gigantic change", where 'y'
is odd for development and even for stable, and 'z' is
basically patch number.  Thus, the first freshmeat
announcement will be for 1.1.0, and 1.2.0 when we have bits
that are deemed stable.

(OK, go ahead and shoot it down...)

Will