[TWiki-Dev] Re: TWiki-Dev digest, Vol 1 #2136 - 8 msgs

[W S. H. <sh...@bw...>]

I would like to voice support *FOR* a single SVN branch for
Plugin development.  The switch from DEVELOP to TWikiRelease04x00 was
a complete surprise to me, and a cause for some confusion.  Plus,
having multiple copies of a plugin is a major deterrent to having
multiple causal developers work on common code.  My own attempt to get
the SectionalEditPlugin upgraded to Dakar was frustrating, given that
the versions on twiki.org and SVN had significant (and in a few
places: conflicting) differences that took a long time to sort out.

In my experience, I think the API is well designed, and I found it
very easy to get new functionality into TWiki.  I hope this same
ease-of-entry for casual developers can be extended to SVN.  I think
having multiple SVN locations detracts from this, and thus advocate
for one SVN depository with a .tgz fetch available from nightly
builds for 'beta' versions and 'official' releases posted on
twiki.org.

-- 
   W. Scott Hoge,
   http://lmi.bwh.harvard.edu/~shoge/


On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, twi...@li... wrote:

> Message: 5
> From: Meredith <ms...@sp...>
> Subject: Re: [TWiki-Dev] Invitation for Edinburgh Meeting on Mon, 01 May, 21:00 GMT
> Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:54:21 -0400
> To: twi...@li...
> Reply-To: twi...@li...
>
>
> On Apr 30, 2006, at 1:45 PM, Peter Thoeny wrote:
>
>> All:
>>
>> Please join the Edinburgh Meeting on Mon, 01 May, 21:00 GMT
>> on IRC channel #twiki_edinburgh.
>>
>> Preliminary agenda:
>>    * Review previous action items
>>    * Single branch Plugin development
>>
>>
>
> I would like to have "Single branch Plugin development" removed from
> the agenda. AFAIK, everyone but Pth thinks this is a bad idea. This
> sounds like a sure-fire way to a) have a contentious and unproductive
> meeting and b) leave no room for dealing with the many real issues
> that remain.
>
> meredith
>
>