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On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 04:38:33PM +0200, Günter Dannoritzer wrote:

Creating a release can already be done today, it is just a matter of tagging 
the files in the cvs by maintainer with a specific release tag (maintainer 
has to come up with the name which can be anything really). And then make 
the link on the web page to the cvsget with the release tag. As simple as 
that. However true most maintainers don't create releases.

It would be possible for the site to automatically create releases, but I'm 
not sure what would trigger that. I don't think automatic releases done 
periodically makes sense, for example every 1st day of the month to make a 
new release?

regards,
Damjan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andreas Ehliar" <ehliar@l...>
To: <cores@o...>
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: warning [Was: Re: [oc] MP3 Decoder in VHDL]

> On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 04:38:33PM +0200, Günter Dannoritzer wrote:
>> I think finishing a project is quite different between software and
>> logic projects. The software is never finished, but everybody uses it
>> already, it just reaches a certain version with certain features. With
>> the logic there is a defined state where you put the stamp "done" to it.
>> Mostly only then it really can be used.
>
> At the moment it seems as if all projects are content with existing solely
> in CVS. This is great for developing but as a user I would really like to
> download a release of the project instead of having to download the latest
> CVS version. I have a feeling that the load on the opencores server could
> be easened if we didn't have to use CVS all the time to download releases.
> (Even worse, CVS through a webgui in most cases.)
>
> This would ease bug tracking as well since it is easy for the user to
> report that she has downloaded version 0.4 of a certain version instead
> of a certain CVS release.
>
> Mirroring of opencores would be easier as well since we could mirror the
> release files.
>
> At a glance, a lot of projects are marked as "DONE" on the project page. 
> All
> of these should easily be able to produce a release file IMO.
>
> /Andreas
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