Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 23:38:24 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> Cc: brian@Awfulhak.org, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, imp@village.org, jasone@canonware.com, brian@hak.lan.awfulhak.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Destabilization due to SMP development Message-ID: <200006202238.XAA67600@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> of "Tue, 20 Jun 2000 17:43:00 EDT." <200006202143.RAA84269@lakes.dignus.com>
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> > > > What about doing the changes on a branch with the understanding that > > the branch will *replace* HEAD when it stabilises ? > > > > This sounds odd at first glance, but it means that others are forced > > to MFC into the smp branch - if they don't they lose. > > > > Anybody that's not confident to be able to merge into the smp branch > > will simply be in the same position - merge or hold off. They'd also > > be just as likely to break the smp work with their commits as if the > > smp work was done in HEAD. > > > > Isn't this the same thing as breaking the head and keeping every thing > else (that is the pre-broken 5.0) on a branch... > > Just sorta rotating the tree a little... > > And, isn't this the same idea as -stable? > > If that's all true - I'd suggest that those who really want stability > might be better served with the -stable branch for the interim. If you > need a totally-brand-new-feature, then MFC that to -stable and get > it there... [.....] > I suppose I can sum this up with "isn't this already handled?" True, if you run current you've gotta be able to cope with the blood. However, I don't think it's a good idea to have a single project prevent a load of other developers from doing their bits - not if it can be helped. I'm sure SMP is not the only code in -current that's not ready for -stable yet. > - Dave Rivers - > > -- > rivers@dignus.com Work: (919) 676-0847 > Get your mainframe (370) `C' compiler at http://www.dignus.com -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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