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Create svn tags with the stable releases #112

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I would like to have svn tags for each stable release of the project, it is
a common concept as pointed here:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch04s06.html

It is very useful for those of us using svn:externals properties to link
the repository.

Thanks,

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ruyado...@gmail.com on 28 Oct 2009 at 9:10

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Hi Ruy.

The idea is good, but in practice, it probably won't happen. 
The thing is, I am not sure what could constitute a stable version of 
BulkLoader. The 
core code doesn't change much (two exceptions[1] during the last few years, 
which 
were good candidates for stable releases ;).

Also, the fact that I almost never get feedback about bugs introduced between 
versions make it harder to reason on those terms. I my self, use BulkLoader 
from 
trunk, and I advise folks to do the same. Out of the +300 revisions, 3 or 4 had 
regression bugs on them, and they're fixed pretty fast. Also BulkLoader has a 
pretty 
decent test suite at this point (over 230 tests) so large scale breakage is 
very unlikely.

If I ever do any larger scale refactoring or api changes I'll try to keep that 
in mind 
though. What I've done so far is that I commit larger changes to trunk, let the 
folks 
on the mailing list know and ask them to test it. A few weeks without 
complaints and 
I upload a 'stable' download.

Regards
Arthur

[1] one such change was the LI refactor branch, and another was the domain 
sharding one.

Original comment by debert on 31 Oct 2009 at 4:05