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From: John Sisson <jsisson@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: Old tags in Geornimo
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I agree with Bruce.  One may read mail archives or a Wiki entry trying 
to find some information on a topic and find information that mentions 
M3 or M4.  We should keep the tags to allow one to piece together 
something historical.

John

Bruce Snyder wrote:
> On 10/29/05, Dain Sundstrom <dain@iq80.com> wrote:
> 
>>Good point.  Maybe we should create an "archived" or "unsupported"
>>directory in tags that can hold these for historical purposes.
> 
> 
> I disagree that the M1-M4 tags should be removed altogether. Tags are
> nothing more than a marker for a point in time so I disagree that they
> indicate any level of support. If that were true, most open source
> projects would be crucified for all the tags in CVS/SVN.
> 
> I am very much in favor of creating an archive directory in order to
> keep the old tags around.
> 
> Bruce
> --
> perl -e 'print unpack("u30","D0G)U8V4\@4VYY9&5R\"F)R=6-E+G-N>61E<D\!G;6%I;\"YC;VT*"
> );'
> 
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> 
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