[Project-managers] Soliciting opinions on prepare_new_stable script

[Ted Ralphs]

I can't see many scenarios in which a new stable would be made from
anything but trunk, but it is possible you could make a stable from
either a branch or by copying over an old stable and then merging some
stuff from trunk. In any case, I don't see any reason to restrict the
script to copying from trunk. It could just take the directory to be
copied as an argument. I was actually thinking there might not be a
need for such a script since the process is a bit easier than that of
creating a release, but I guess we'll be creating a lot of new stables
over the next couple of months with the new build tools stuff coming
on line. It would be nice to automate that.

Cheers,

Ted

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Hart, William E <wehart at sandia.gov> wrote:
> Lou:
>
> I have always assumed that stable is created from trunk.  My management of Acro has mimic'd the trunk/stable/release branches in COIN-OR, though creation of a stable branch is pretty easy for me:  (1) svn cp from trunk to stable, (2) initialize merging with svnmerge.
>
> --Bill
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: project-managers-bounces at list.coin-or.org [mailto:project-managers-bounces at list.coin-or.org] On Behalf Of Lou Hafer
> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 5:58 PM
> To: buildtools at list.coin-or.org; project-managers at list.coin-or.org
> Subject: [Project-managers] Soliciting opinions on prepare_new_stable script
>
> Folks,
>
>        Not too many days back, I rashly stated that I'd do up a
> prepare_new_stable script the next time I needed to do it.  Which turns out to
> be now, much to my chagrin.  Looking back over change logs, I can see that
> people have created new stable releases from previous stable releases, and
> directly from trunk.
>
>        First question:  Has anyone else bothered to cobble this together?
> Please, tell me now.
>
>        Second question:  Does anyone have a strong preference for starting from
> the previous stable, vs. starting from trunk?  Is flexibility important?
>
>        If you have other suggestions, now's the time to get them in.
>
>                                                Thanks,
>                                                        Lou
>
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Dr. Ted Ralphs
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