On Tuesday 03 February 2004 16:33, Kurt Lieber wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 03:07:43PM +0200 or thereabouts, Dan Armak wrote: > > And, right now I'm thinking about the developer end of things. It'd be > > more comfortable for me to work with a single cvs tree and keywords. > > Fixing up the rsync end is an implementation detail :-) > > For most cases, this would be exactly how things work -- you use the main > CVS tree and just have an extra set of keywords to administer. > > The only time you'll have to deal with a separate tree is for off-cycle > updates, which are comprised of security updates and major bugfixes. IMO, > this is infrequent enough to outweigh any potential inconveniences to the > dev team.
A bigger inconvinience is that every developer will have to maintain a stable tree system image (or real system) to test any off-cycle updates he may have to do, often hurrying because of a major vulnerability already published. will that be required? Is there a way around it? -- Dan Armak Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2FDD 0069 508D 9143 8D5F 8951
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