Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2010, #08; Sun, 24)

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 at 16:21:51 -0800 (PST), J.H. wrote:
> >
> > I am waiting for response from (I guess busy) J.H.; I can do the re-roll
> > if he is too busy to work on it.
> 
> I'm juggling about 4 things in the air right now, with gitweb being one 
> of them, and two of them involving external entities to kernel.org.  
> It's good news all told, just requires a fair amount of my time 
> (currently) and babysitting.  I've been digging through the patches 
> you've got right now.  I should really just pull them in from your git 
> tree again.

Note however that my series (gitweb/cache-kernel branch) is based on
gitweb-ml-v2, not on newer gitweb-ml-v5.

> After reading through some of the discussions today I've had some more 
> ideas on the caching stuff, they are written up on my whiteboard and I 
> might be able to get to shortly, but I've got a rather large wall 
> looming ahead of me that's going to chew up a *LOT* (read at least a 
> month, if not two) of my time, so I'm a bit under the gun to try and get 
> this as far as I can before I hit that wall or this is going to fall by 
> the wayside again till I've got time again.

I think the best way of utilizing your time would be for you to take
active part in discussion, especially in what git.kernel.org needs and why.

I can clean up the miscellaneous improvements parts myself, and re-roll
caching patches.

> > > For the main caching patch, it seems like good idea to take Jakub's
> > > split-up series instead, let's see what is J.H.'s opinion on the series?
> > >     
> >
> > Let me at least make them into proper patches, with commit messages and 
> > configureability at least of the original caching patch by J.H.
> >
> > Also the question whether to create 'print -> print $out' patch, or to
> > manipulate *STDOUT instead must be solved, I think, before applying
> > those patches... well, at least beyond 'pu'.
> >
> > I am waiting for promised J.H. comments, when he will have time for it...

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Jakub Narebski
Poland