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[Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/30/12 11:59, Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> On 12-03-30 11:17 AM, Gary Poster wrote:
> > * Suggested process change: never patch eggs; fork branches if you
> > must, and make eggs from them.
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> I thought that this was already our policy:
> https://dev.launchpad.net/PolicyForDocumentingCustomDistributions
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> Implied by: "The first [comment line] should indicate the location of
> the sourcecode (trunk or branch or tag), that was used to create the
> distribution"

Yeah.  I don't think that policy has been reviewed/approved/adjusted by 
Robert ("last edited 2010-10-28 16:42:28 by gary"), and it was not 
followed at all for at least a couple of the zope.testing revisions that 
we have.  It's mostly followed (exceptions: we're missing the "how to 
build" comment, and patches have branches rather than revision numbers) 
for the recent revision.

Thanks for highlighting the page, though, which I had completely 
forgotten about.

Gary