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+This is service repository that contains different maintenance utilities for
+SALOME project.
+
+1) Versioning SALOME stable builds.
+
+Each SALOME development build queue is serialized by dumping versioning
+information into dedicated files. Each such file has the following structure:
+
+-----> start of the file
+# Comment lines start with '#' symbol.
+[SALOME]
+<module> = <git commit id>
+...
+
+[PRODUCTS]
+<product> = <version info>
+...
+-----> end of the file
+
+Here,
+- <module> is a name of SALOME module (plugin, tool);
+- <git commit id> is a corresponding git repository commit hash;
+- <product> is a (symbolic) name of the pre-requisite (e.g. "qt", "python");
+- <version info> is a version information for the product.
+
+Each development build queue is dumped into a separate file; name of the file
+contains the information about the build queue. For example:
+- series7x_occt_stable : build SALOME series 7x (from master branch)
+ with stable version of OCCT;
+- series7x_occt_dev : build SALOME series 7x (from master branch)
+ with dev version of OCCT.
+
+Notes:
+- The script that creates versioning file obtains an information about the
+ pre-requisite products from the environment variables. Since there are no
+ dedicated environment variables for some secondary products (like jinja2,
+ pygments, docutils, etc), not all products info is available in the file.
+- For OCCT development version, the OCCT Git tag is used as version information.
