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Greetings,

Thanks for your reply dijichi2. I got your point not use svn and use source tar ball. But here I have some queries as follows:

1) The source tar balls are for release 4.5.5 and 4.5.6 which are just few patches to 4.5, but how could i get just release 4.5 without patches? I think using svn repository that should be possible.

2) If a developer wants to contribute to open source and applies some patch to just release 4.5 (with no patch) for which source code is present in svn how will he confirm that the code snapshot he/she is having is for release just 4.5? By downloading source tar balls it becomes little bit difficult for versioning. Ofcourse a person would not directly commit and would certainly follow the Zimbra and/or Open Source processes but without using svn don't you think it becomes little bit difficult for the developer?

I would also cetainly like to know if the svn version for the branch FRANK itself is not consistent with ZCS release for 4.5. And in this scenario if the source tar ball gurantees release it claims to be, then one must always use the source tar balls and not the svn.

It would also be insightfull if a Zimbra developer/employee clarifies my queries. I think that this would be also helpfull to other open source developers who are planning to contribute to Zimbra Open source initiative.

Thanks to everyone who had a look to my queries.
Thanks to dijichi2 too.

regards,
Zocs