[mythtv] "stable" tag proposal

[Scott Roland]

Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> Eggert Thorlacius wrote:
> 
>> I feel like my question suffered a hostile takeover from another 
>> thread :-)  So in an attempt to get back to the original topic: does 
>> anyone think that a weekly "stable" tag would be a good idea?
> 
> 
> Not necessarily.  Abritrarily marking a particular point in time as 
> "stable" is probably not effective.  I think the other proposals in the 
> thread about branching out the release line and applying critical 
> patches to it would give a stable branch without the risk of the stable 
> tag applying to something not really stable.  As it stands, mythtv CVS 
> is very stable a great percentange of the time.  I run CVS all the time 
> in my house and have really no issues with it related to comitted 
> patches.  Then again, I watch the commit list, keep up on the dev 
> discussion, and know when something got checked in that is likely to 
> break things.

I agree with Kevin. Tagging in CVS is not revisionable, so if this 
week's stable tag is bad it is non-trivial to roll back to a previous 
tag. I think a branch approach would be much more useful, especially for 
those of us not as diligent as Kevin.
-- 
Scott Roland