[jboss-dev] JBoss AS branching and next releases

[Jason T. Greene]

If you have a tag, and you dont want people writing to the branch, then 
the branch is useless. Just get rid of it.


Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
> if you want to prevent commits then just adjust the 
> /admin/authz_svn.conf to make that branch readonly.
> 
> /max
>> Renaming/removing the branch won't have any effect on the tags [1].  
>> But I don't think renaming it to _Dead is a good idea.  If it really 
>> is dead, then why not just delete it?  You can always create a branch 
>> from one of the tags if you find that you need the branch again.
>>
>> [1] http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.branchmerge.maint.html
>>
>> Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
>>> I suppose the other option would be to make it read-only in 
>>> authz_svn.conf
>>>
>>> Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
>>>> svn rename is really copy+delete. Do you have any idea if it will 
>>>> affect tags taken out of Branch_5_0? If not, I suppose we can do it.
>>>>
>>>> Kabir Khan wrote:
>>>>>> a) the branch that produced AS 5.0.0.GA should be considered 
>>>>>> "dead". We won't be doing a dot release from this branch (5.0.1.CR1)
>>>>>> https://svn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/branches/Branch_5_0/
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Can it be renamed to 
>>>>> https://svn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/branches/Branch_5_0_DEAD?
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Jason T. Greene
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