[wtp-dev] Notes on Builds, CVS tags, releasing code

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Please do not "release" code
for a build yet, as we still have some "documentation builds"
to do, and having newly released 
code would only complicate that (I think).
 Hopefully this will be resolved within a week at which time we will
restart I-builds for post 0.7 work. 
And, committing code to head should
be fine, though no immediate plans for "head builds" either (that
I know of). 
[I'd still prefer to only do head builds
on special requests, as I think head builds have limited usefulness and
can even 
be misleading ... such as most assume
their head version of code is ok to be released if it is good in a head
build .. it is not, 
it should be checked (locally) against
currently released code since that is what is used once it is released].


Also, I've tagged all the projects used
in the final 0.7 build with R0_7.  
This is mostly a CVS convenience, as
sometimes doing a "compare with another version" 
goes much better if there is a common
version tag to use. 

This R0_7 tag will not effect most developers,
since nearly all developement is done
in head, and then tagged with normal
vdate-time stamp as alwasy. 
However if/when anyone needs a maintenance
branch for 0.7, the tag R0_7 should be used 
as "the starting tag" ...
again, this is not technically required, but makes CVS tools easier to

use for us humans, getting a clear indication
of when the branch started. We'll work out more 
about maintenance builds later. 

If there's ever any doubt the map file
produced (and tagged) with the 0.7 build its the officially correct version.


Please let me know if questions or concerns
about this timing.