Re: TSC Meetings for the meeting of June

[Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>]

On 06/09/2010 10:57 AM, Chris Larson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks<
> fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> 2010/6/9 Holger Freyther<holger+oe@freyther.de<holger%2Boe@freyther.de>
>>> :
>>> We were carrying the org.openembedd.dev branch name from the monotone
>>> era into the git era and the TSC was asked to consider renaming it to
>>> 'master' which is the git default for the main development tree. Now the
>>> actual change on the server will be minor what is of a bigger concern
>>> are the existing users and documentation.
>>
>> Technically speaking I think we should have run an RFC for this before
>> it was brought to the table of the TSC.
>>
>> Personally the org.openembedded.dev branch name does not bother me
>> although I know master is the 'standard' git name.
>> Afaik renaming does not really solve a problem.
>>
>
> Personally, I have to type it at least a few times a day, it gets old, and I
> think its time we ditched monotone remnants where we're able to do so.

I'm with Chris. The name is long and annoying. It is time to drop the 
monotone/bitkeeper remnants.

Philip

>
> I am not too sure how much this affects the current users. Actually I
>> doubt if the change is bigger than the packages ->  recipes renaming
>> Isse is that if we do that we should make sure all relevant
>> documentation is updated, otherwise we only create confusion (which
>> might still creep up as people use old mailing list articles).
>>
>> Considering this, I am in favour of keeping things as they are.
>
>
> If we implement this, I don't really see a problem doing it for the users:
>
>
>>   >   c.) To ease this for existing users and to reduce the amount of
>>>       support org.openembedded.dev will track master and remains
>>>       available for a limited but long amount of time.
>>