On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Gilles <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 09:41:44 +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > >> >> - No immediate Jenkins feedback if a rng-core change breaks rng-utils > > I'm not sure I got that one. > If it means to copy the new "rng-core" over to some place for use > by the build of "rng-utils", can't this be done by a "post-build" > script? The lack of immediate feedback is the same risk we have with other commons components being dependencies of other projects, Apache or otherwise. I think with the level that commons projects are policed through unit tests, code reviews, backwards compatibility checks, and release candidate reviews this risk is mitigated to a very acceptable level. In the past when the commons project changes did cause unintended upstream problems, I feel we have done a good job reacting in a timely fashion to address these issues and make process improvements if warranted. I do see how we'd be any different, or need to be any different, with these two components. If this is something we want more risk mitigation, we could set up both components in Gump. > If that is not obvious to you, but are willing to trust other > members here (me in this case), you could agree to make the > experiment! :-) > Then when we see more code, more users, more contributors, > more opinions, and we see that there is merit in merging the > two components, we'll just do it. > [And I'll apologize to the INFRA people for the time they wasted > in setting up the project.] > > > Gilles > > I was just thinking the same thing. Let's try one way and see it works to satisfaction. If it does, great. If it proves to be burdensome or the benefits are not realized, we can try another approach. Another thing I was thinking if we wanted to test drive the multi-project route, what about setting up rng-utils in the sandbox? Process-wise it would be a lot like a proper project thus, giving us the opportunity to see how it would actually function. One benefit of using the sandbox is that the work can begin immediately as it does not require infrastructure changes. Brent
