Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 19:04:06 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Hackers), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Stable Users), FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD current users) Subject: Re: The -stable problem: my view Message-ID: <m0uSDNn-0005zxC@main.statsci.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Jun 1996 19:14:08 -0600." <199606080114.TAA01864@rocky.sri.MT.net> References: <199606072306.RAA01251@rocky.sri.MT.net> <17605.834196067@time.cdrom.com> <199606080114.TAA01864@rocky.sri.MT.net>
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Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> wrote:
> The complexity of merging two *very* different trees isn't going to
> change, and no automatic scheme is going to make it any easier.
So, it sounds like goal should be to reduce the differences between the
"current" tree and the "stable" tree. One question I did have - when a
real release happened, why wouldn't you make -release and -stable the same
tree at that instant? Maybe I'm oversimplifying, but at some instant,
shouldn't -current, -stable and -release be the same thing? Or maybe the
-stable tree is the "main trunk" where -release is snapshot'd off of at
release time and -current is a major development branch that gets merged
into the -stable tree as it is stablized? Ehhh...now that I think on
it...that sounds too simplistic.
Or keep a -current tree (or collection of them acting as "token
generators" as in Jordan's message) that lags the real -current tree by a
week or two and snapshot that into a -stable if enough "it was good"
"tokens" are received over the one week period?
Why does my mind wander back to college and the Heisenberg principle? :-))
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