I basically share Jon's position on branch vs. trunk and 2248.
> From: Jonathan Gray
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> I agree that after going over the diffs between branch and
> trunk, the better choice is to switch to trunk and merge in
> the stuff that went into branch that didn't make it into
> trunk. I went through the list of what's in trunk and
> not branch twice last night and there's really nothing
> significant outside of replication, test refactoring, shell
> stuff, and some HLog fixes/refactors. Lots of
> stability/testing work still needs to be done around HLog
> and recovery but we should do it against trunk where some
> good stuff has already gone in.
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> Some of the other smaller jiras that were done against
> branch only could trickle in after the move, if necessary,
> but 2248 at least appears to be a blocker to doing this
> transition.
>
> Ryan, are you comfortable with this?
>
> If Ryan can do the port of 2248 to trunk this week, then
> I'm +1 on merging branch into trunk. I would then
> think that in a 2-3 week timeframe we would cut a new branch
> off of trunk and stabilize it.
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