From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.geekisp.com ([216.168.135.169] helo=starfish.geekisp.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OMOaz-0002UU-7S for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:57:42 +0200 Received: (qmail 21508 invoked by uid 1003); 9 Jun 2010 16:53:17 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.182.227?) (philip@opensdr.com@127.0.0.1) by mail.geekisp.com with SMTP; 9 Jun 2010 16:53:17 -0000 Message-ID: <4C0FC6F6.1050105@balister.org> Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:53:10 -0400 From: Philip Balister User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100430 Fedora/3.0.4-3.fc13 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <4C0F9119.3000909@freyther.de> In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 216.168.135.169 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: philip@balister.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: Re: TSC Meetings for the meeting of June X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:57:42 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 >>> : >>> 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. >>