From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16565 invoked by alias); 14 Feb 2003 16:24:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 16558 invoked from network); 14 Feb 2003 16:24:30 -0000 Subject: Re: v2.0 beta branch From: Gary Thomas To: Jonathan Larmour Cc: eCos Maintainers In-Reply-To: <3E4D1748.60006@eCosCentric.com> References: <3E4D0F3E.2080108@eCosCentric.com> <1045237872.3771.167.camel@hermes.chez-thomas.org> <3E4D1748.60006@eCosCentric.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 (1.0.3-4) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:24:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1045239870.3771.214.camel@hermes.chez-thomas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2003-02/txt/msg00027.txt.bz2 On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 09:20, Jonathan Larmour wrote: > Gary Thomas wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 08:46, Jonathan Larmour wrote: > > > >>Hi guys, > >> > >>We're now at the stage where we want to make a 2.0 beta branch in the > >>public repository. Is everyone okay with that? This is just a branch in > >>advance of the proper beta release so we can make sure it's a stable base > >>for testing and generating the beta. > >> > >>If there are no objections I'll do it later this evening. > > > > > > Can you set a specific time for this? I'd like to see if I can have > > a new [platform] port ready before that. n.b. it's pretty much ready > > now, I was just going to do a few tweaks before submitting. > > Let's say 19:30 GMT. Jld wants to do some testing over the weekend, and > wants to get it started this evening. > > > If I miss this "deadline", it's no big deal, but it would be nice > > to get in under the wire. > > I think we'll have to move to an "approve before commits" system pretty > much straight away for anything but trivial bug fixes. So commit to the > trunk when you're ready, post the patch, and $SOMEONEELSE can decide if > it's safe or not. > > At a guess, if it's very self-contained it's probably ok; if it plays > around in arch/variant HALs for example, then probably not. So if it's the > latter, it may not be worth busting a gut. > > It'll probably be okay to relax the branch commit requirements a bit once > the beta release is actually spun from the branch and available for > download, just to make life easier for the beta period before the final. > It's self contained, with little (if any) non-platform specific changes. That said, I'll probably just wait, but we'll see where I'm at in 3 hours time :-) > This is only for target code of course, not docs etc. > > >>Separately, but relevant before the branch, I and the other guys think > >>it's about time we renamed the net template to old_net and new_net to net. > >>Is this okay too? Obviously we'll update the docs with that. > > > > > > When you do that (it's OK by me), remember to point out that SNMP is > > not net working/available with the new stack. > > Yep. And will do the CDL requires which seals it :-). Thanks. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | MLB Associates | Consulting for the +1 (970) 229-1963 | Embedded world http://www.mlbassoc.com/ | email: | gpg: http://www.chez-thomas.org/gary/gpg_key.asc ------------------------------------------------------------