[Sugar-devel] Branching Glucose modules

[Simon Schampijer]

On 06/16/2012 04:49 AM, Chris Leonard wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just branched the various Glucose modules. The 'sucrose-0.96' branch will
>> be used for stable releases and the master branch to continue further
>> development. Bug fixes will be cherry-picked from the master branches to the
>> stable branches.
>>
>> * sugar
>> * sugar-toolkit-gtk3
>> * sugar-artwork
>> * sugar-datastore
>>
>> The branches for pootle should be created accordingly. Please don't do any
>> mass pushes to the stable branches for localization anymore. Only if a
>> translation coordinator feels confident about making their translations
>> available they should be present on the stable branches.
>>
>> The following modules have not been branched due to deprecation:
>>
>> * sugar-toolkit (will be replaced by sugar-toolkit-gtk3 and therefore only
>> see bugfixes)
>> * sugar-base (moved inside sugar-toolkit-gtk3)
>> * sugar-presence-service (has been deprecated for a long time already)
>
> Simon,
>
> sugar-presence-service is not present in Glucose (0.96), AFAICT, and
> therefore branching it will not be needed,
>
> I would like to request that you branch sugar-toolkit and sugar-base
> creating ""sucrose-0.96" branches for them.
>
> The reasons for this are as follows:
>
> a) In spite of the fact that developer commits to these branches are
> not anticipated due to their EOL status during the 0.97 > 0.98 release
> cycle, it should be recognized that L10n commits to the 0.96 versions
> of these modules will continue for some time, possibly even with new
> languages being added as 0.96 is going to have a continuing
> "in-service" lifetime of several years, depending on decisions made by
> deployments.
>
> b) Should any backports of features ever be considered to these
> particular elements of the "sucrose-0.96" series, it would be best if
> there was an unambiguously named branch (as opposed to an un-versioned
> "master" to which these commits could be made (however unlikely it is
> that this will occur).
>
> c) Creating named "sucrose-0.96" branches of these modules will allow
> me to create the newly branched Glucose 0.96 project in Pootle with
> unambiguous commit links (needed at the time of set-up).
>
> I appreciate your consideration of this request.
>
> Regards,
>
> cjl
> Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator

Thanks for laing out the reasoning. Makes sense and if it helps you I am 
all for that.

Created the branches for sugar-base and sugar-toolkit.

Cheers,
    Simon