From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Randy.Dunlap" Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:38:52 +0000 Subject: Re: [KJ] bitkeeper tree for kjt patchset? Message-Id: <41BF171C.4070809@osdl.org> List-Id: References: <1103041747.8263.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1103041747.8263.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Gustavo Franco wrote: > What do you think of a bk repository for kjt? I did a search and i > didn't see anything related with this topic, am i missing something ? IMO the maintainer should use whatever s/he feels is the best tool for the job, whichever it is. > Reading all recent -mm announces we see that Andrew is merging acpi, > agpgart, arm, cifs and others bk trees. I think that he can merge bk-kjt > too and we'll see more testing of these patches posted at this list. Andrew can and will merge non-bk patchsets also (such as those made with quilt or (his) patch-scripts), but he considers KJ patchsets too risky IIRC. I may or may not be able to find the email on that subject/discussion. You or someone can ask him again, of course. > Actually, the kjt 'release process' is post the patchset to lkml when > kjt maintainer feels that it's ok, no? IMO, it can be done the same way > but asking for Andrew merge bk-kjt before release -mm kernels adding > there (bk-kjt) only reviewed patches posted at this list. Comments? > > If you think that it's a good idea and there's no server to setup it > (and i guess that bkbits won't be a problem), i can host it atm. Please keep in mind that patchsets should still be available as a tarball (IMO of course, but when Linus started using BK, it was with the understanding that no one is _required_ to use BK, that there would be alternative methods of getting the source). So if cloning a KJ BK tree was required, I would never do it. I just want tarballs -- which doesn't prevent the use of BK by the KJ maintainer. -- ~Randy _______________________________________________ Kernel-janitors mailing list Kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel-janitors