Re: [alf-dev] RE: ALF SCM Vocabulary - Data Model version 5+firstpass a

[Eric Minick <etm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not sure that makes much sense. A baseline is going to capture a 
snapshot of the versions in a configuration at a moment in time. From 
the wiki: "A baseline is therefore a fixed set of versions, one version 
per element in a component". At it's most basic level, you are applying 
a label to some project.

The Change-set is also a collection of versions but it is a much smaller 
set with a different purpose. This might be the collection that is 
submitted as part of an atomic check-in, the versions that make up a bug 
fix, or some other relatively small collection.

For a Baseline to be represented as a collection of Changesets, it would 
have to include every change-set leading to that baseline in the history 
of the project. Or, more likely, a previous baseline and the set of 
changesets that differentiates the two.

I think partial change sets could be a possibility (a bug is half fixed 
when a baseline is completed) but that's more of a social problem than a 
technical one.

Cheers,
Eric

Slava Imeshev wrote:

> I'd think that a Baseline were a set of ChangeSets then. Otherwise this 
> structure may create possibility of having a baseline consisting of "partial 
> change sets"...
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> Regards,
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> Slava Imeshev
> vimeshev@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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