From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MRoMk-0002Dg-8d for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:24:50 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MRoMi-0002DR-IE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:24:48 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MRoMd-0002Cf-O9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:24:47 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36380 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MRoMd-0002Cc-Gb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:24:43 -0400 Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]:13934) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MRoMd-0005LR-2U for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:24:43 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO smtprelay2.cesmail.net) ([192.168.1.112]) by c60.cesmail.net with ESMTP; 17 Jul 2009 10:24:24 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.22] (static-72-92-88-10.phlapa.fios.verizon.net [72.92.88.10]) by smtprelay2.cesmail.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8431634C6A for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:34:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Pavel Roskin To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:24:30 -0400 Message-Id: <1247840671.25608.18.camel@mj> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 (2.26.3-1.fc11) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: New developing branch of grub2 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:24:49 -0000 On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 17:52 +0800, Bean wrote: > Hi, > > I've created a repository at GitHub to hold some developing patches, > the main repos is at: > > http://github.com/grub/grub/ > > master is the developing branch, while svn is the mirror of grub2 svn. > > I also have a forked project at: > > http://github.com/bean123/grub/ > > The lib branch contains the new object format code. It's hard to see the unmerged changes in those repositories. I can tell from my experience with Linux kernel development that branches are not used for such efforts. Patches need to be posted, reviewed and discussed by others. Separate branches or repositories are used for subsystems that have their own maintainers. That is, there is a repository for wireless networking. Patches are still posted and reviewed in a separate list. Once they are good, they are committed to the subsystem repository. And then Linus pulls from it because he trusts the subsystem maintainers and knows that the patches have been reviewed. When patches are publishing for review, there is incentive for the patch author to make changes clear. When the patches are published as a branch, chances are that the development will go too far before other developers have a look at the code. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin