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On Saturday 22 October 2005 10:08, Brian Harring wrote: |
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> On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 12:14:40AM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: |
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> > On Friday 21 October 2005 19:06, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> > > Jason Stubbs wrote: |
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> > > > After thinking about it, incremental "feature creep" does seem like |
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> > > > the best way to go at this late stage in 2.0's life. The problem is |
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> > > > how to guage what is and what is not more trouble than worth. Perhaps |
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> > > > adhering to the kernel's rule of "Separate each logical change into |
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> > > > its own patch" would help to ease the possible impact of larger |
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> > > > changes? |
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> > > Probably the best solution. |
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> > Brian, you agree on this? It'll mean splitting up the cache patch... |
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> Would be curious how it would be chunked up... |
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> patch of the new subsystem, patch of portage.py modifications? |
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> Depends on def. of logical changes I guess; in the case of the cache |
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> patch, it's kind of all or none with the changes. |
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> Suggestions/preferences? |
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Something like: |
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* Add base class(es) for new cache framework |
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* Add cache backend for XYZ database |
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* Switch portdbapi to the new framework |
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* Remove old framework |
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> > I'm not much for the ChangeLog at all really. At least not without going |
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> > over what makes a good commit message and setting up some guidelines. I'm |
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> > definitely for any ChangeLog being autogenerated though. |
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> No ChangeLog will piss off users; dev's already poke about it on each |
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> release. |
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Nothing at all will(/has) piss(ed) of users. I can't see people not being |
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happy with a concise set of major changes though. I don't mind much either |
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way. |
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> So... guideliness. ? |
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Should start a new thread about it later. I'd like to get this one finalized |
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first. :) |
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Jason Stubbs |
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