From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com (yw-out-2324.google.com [74.125.46.30]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D4E4DDED9 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:20:05 +1100 (EST) Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 5so15801ywh.39 for ; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:20:04 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1233806493.4612.65.camel@pasglop> References: <1233806493.4612.65.camel@pasglop> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 21:20:04 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [ANN] Introducing new "test" branch in powerpc.git tree From: Grant Likely To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: linuxppc-dev list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > [...] > Now, one important rule is: test will be reset at the beginning of every > merge window. I will not let it degenerate into the old linuxppc-dev bk > tree that drifted for years and had things that never got merged. > > I'm also not sure whether sub-maintainers should do the same thing with > a "test" branch of their own. I certainly don't mind if they rebase > their "next" branches so I'm happy for them to play the same game > directly into their 'next' branch as long as the day they ask me to pull > it into the real 'next', they are reasonably confident that the stuff in > there is stable. I'm cool with this. I certainly maintain a branch which is frequently rebased and that is exactly where I stash stuff as I try to decide what to do with it. The only difference is that mine isn't usually public. If people want to see it, then I push it out, but otherwise I just wait until I've got a real pull request. In fact, in this cycle I did push out to my -next and then had to redo it before I sent my pull request because one of the middle commits had an oops (but, nobody bases their patches on my -next tree, so it doesn't have the same repercussions). g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.