[gentoo-catalyst] Re: team meeting

[Brian Dolbec]

Doh! sent incorrectly... resending to the list

On Sun, 2013-12-29 at 03:31 -0800, Douglas Freed wrote:
> On Dec 29, 2013 3:19 AM, "Markos Chandras" <hwoarang@g.o>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 12/19/2013 02:31 AM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
> > > So, my "decision" is that all of us that were using master and
> relied on
> > > it, move to a catalyst release version or to a new branch to track
> > > catalyst-2 development. I had hoped to get some discussion about
> this on
> > > the meeting, but since I don't want us to wait so long, let's
> discuss
> > > this branch through e-mail.
> >
> > When you say "new branch" you mean the 3.0 ? When I joined the team
> I
> > was told the 3.0 branch was supposed to be used by "us" to provide
> > feedback and improve it as this was going to be the next master. Is
> this
> > still the case? I have been using it all along to provide the MIPS
> stages.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Markos Chandras
>
> Yeah, 3.0 is still destined to become master.  I believe the plan is
> to take logical series from the 3.0 branch and submit them to the
> catalyst list for review and then get merged into master.  It's nice
> to know that it works for a full stage3  and that we have release
> stages using it without issue.
>
> -dwfreed
>

Yeah, the "new branch" he referred to would be a 2.x branch to fix
anything needed to make a new 2.x release.  But only if it was needed
before a 3.0 release was ready to be made.

And, A big thank you (from me) for running the 3.0 code since last
spring.  Maybe some others in the releng team will take note of that and
not be quite so scared about the code changes coming for
review/inclusion into master.