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From: Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [git migration] The problem of ChangeLog generation
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:36:26
Message-Id: 4BBC985F.6020607@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [git migration] The problem of ChangeLog generation by Angelo Arrifano
1 On 04/07/2010 05:58 AM, Angelo Arrifano wrote:
2 > 3*) With git, one would just branch (lets call it embedded branch) the
3 > package. Apply the patches there and let people using embedded profiles
4 > to emerge from that branch instead of master.
5 > Benefits? I think they are pretty obvious - people can start putting
6 > quick patches in the tree for specific arches while not breaking others.
7 >
8 > IMHO, the only bottleneck I see on Gentoo development is the massive
9 > policy (not saying it is not needed) a -dev has to follow just to commit
10 > a simple fix. Git my friends, will be our holly grail.
11
12 I think that allowing for different levels of QA standards, and
13 accomodating things like this are good reasons to use branches.
14 HOWEVER, we do need to manage this so that it doesn't get out of hand.
15
16 We really don't want users following 14 different branches and have 10
17 different variations on every package in the tree - which is how it
18 could get after a year or two of branching without any effort to do
19 pruning and get things merged into a main tree.
20
21 Having branches to do development and facilitate access and testing
22 seems fine, however we should always have the goal of getting these
23 tested revisions merged back into the main tree. We really don't want
24 divergent development to be the norm.

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[gentoo-dev] Re: [git migration] The problem of ChangeLog generation Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o>