[epp-dev] Query regarding Eclipse CVS repository

[Sandeep Krishnan <krishsandy85@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

I am a graduate student and my research involves studying Eclipse's CVS 
repository and bug database.

I had a question regarding how the CVS repository is used. As far as I 
understand the development of Eclipse, the maintenance releases of one 
release (say Eclipse 3.6) and the milestone and RCs of Eclipse 3.7 
happen somewhat in parallel (I got this mainly by seeing the release 
schedule of Eclipse). I wanted to know how the code development and 
commit into CVS works for this parallel development works. After say 3.6 
is released sometime June, is it that the head revision continues with 
the development of the next release, 3.7? I saw some 3_x_maintenance 
branches but they have code only for some modules. Are these the 
branches where the SRs for a release are developed?

And a related question is that whether there are different developer 
teams working on 3.6.1 and on 3.7 or do the same people work on both 
based on the priority of bugs?

If there is any link or some guidelines on how this parallel development 
works, that may also be helpful.

I am posting it to this forum since the leaders of all projects are 
here. I apologize if it is the wrong place to post this query

Thanks,
Sandeep Krishnan