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Jason Stubbs wrote: |
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> Postpone the cache rewrite from above. Have only the minimal mods necessary to |
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> fix the PORT_LOGDIR/tee bug. Include the other two as is. That would be |
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> 2.0.54 as per the attached patch. Get that out soon and get trunk out masked |
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> at around the same time. As soon as 2.0.54 goes stable put trunk into ~arch. |
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> However, instead of ~arch meaning "regression fixes only" we could just limit |
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> it to "minor changes only" (ie. no big refactorings, rewrites or similar high |
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> risk changes) until it is time to stable it. |
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That seems reasonable. Perhaps we could introduce a third tier (beyond stable and ~arch) via -* keywords or package.mask? |
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> However, with the trunk's target (2.1?) rather than letting the arch teams |
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> decide when we call it stable, I think it would be a better idea to move it |
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> to the .0 version when we feel it is ready leaving it in ~arch. As |
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> regressions are fixed the .0 can be bumped to .1, .2 or whatever, but the |
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> focus can move to what happens beyond that rather than waiting... |
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Yeah, this focus on waiting is rather annoying. :) |
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Zac |
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