RFC: branch off the last stable branch under monotone?

RFC: branch off the last stable branch under monotone?

[Leon Woestenberg]

Hello all,

should we, or should we not, branch off a stable branch under
monotone, i.e. the last stable using monotone?

The argument would be to offer the existing use base (which typically
lags behind much) a (last) monotone based branch.

I can imagine the answer should be "no", as the number of maintainers
is low (and I am to blame as well).

Regards,
-- 
Leon

Re: RFC: branch off the last stable branch under monotone?

[Koen Kooi]

On 08-10-2008 15:46, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> should we, or should we not, branch off a stable branch under
> monotone, i.e. the last stable using monotone?
>
> The argument would be to offer the existing use base (which typically
> lags behind much) a (last) monotone based branch.
>
> I can imagine the answer should be "no", as the number of maintainers
> is low (and I am to blame as well).

A read-only stable branch is pretty much useless, since you can't apply 
fixes to keep it stable.

regards,

Koen

Re: RFC: branch off the last stable branch under monotone?

[Philip Balister]

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Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> should we, or should we not, branch off a stable branch under
> monotone, i.e. the last stable using monotone?
> 
> The argument would be to offer the existing use base (which typically
> lags behind much) a (last) monotone based branch.
> 
> I can imagine the answer should be "no", as the number of maintainers
> is low (and I am to blame as well).

My understanding is that we can make the branch in mtn now, and it will 
be converted with the rest of the repository when it is converted to 
git, so the stable branch will also convert to git at that time.

Philip

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Re: RFC: branch off the last stable branch under monotone?

[Graeme Gregory]

On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 10:19 -0400, Philip Balister wrote:
> My understanding is that we can make the branch in mtn now, and it will 
> be converted with the rest of the repository when it is converted to 
> git, so the stable branch will also convert to git at that time.

That doesn't make sense to me. So we are creating a new stable branch
just because a random thing is happening next weds. Is OE even in a fit
state at the moment for a stable branch? We can just randomly select a
day.

Graeme

Re: RFC: branch off the last stable branch under monotone?

[Leon Woestenberg]

Hello,

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Graeme Gregory <dp@xora.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 10:19 -0400, Philip Balister wrote:
>> My understanding is that we can make the branch in mtn now, and it will
>> be converted with the rest of the repository when it is converted to
>> git, so the stable branch will also convert to git at that time.
>
> That doesn't make sense to me. So we are creating a new stable branch
> just because a random thing is happening next weds. Is OE even in a fit
> state at the moment for a stable branch? We can just randomly select a
> day.
>
- The argument I gave was the fact that that stable branch would be
maintained under monotone, so with that argument, I would not consider
the transition to GIT a random event.
- 'OE in fit state' is hard to tell given the numerous variables, but
yes, the infrastructure seems stable to me.
- I did not mean read-only, but a maintained stable branch under monotone.

Anyhow, given the responses I think the concensus/answer to my
question is 'no, should not'.

Thanks for the replies,
-- 
Leon