TheOldFellow wrote:
But the point is that without Jim's efforts there would not be a Cross-LFS branch. To a large degree it's 'Jim's Branch'. (Ryan's ideas, maybe some from Greg too, but Jim actually (mostly) did the branch.)
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So in my view: Use IRC for branch development UP TO the point it becomes TRUNK (i.e. long before Testing). Then never use IRC again for development, just discussion. Any relevant discussion on IRC MUST be logged and the log published with due time (24 hours?) for list discussion before any (significant) commits are made.
I completely agree. (Except please don't forget the large amount of work I and Manuel have put into the book :) Not as much as Jim, but still...) And to be honest that's generally what has been happening. The lack of development discussion on the lfs-dev list is directly related to the lack of actual development happening on trunk these days.
As Randy pointed out, there's several paths LFS could take at this point. And to the best of my knowledge it hasn't yet been decided what direction we're going to be taking. So keeping that in mind, and also considering that cross-lfs has never left the status of a conceptual branch, are you really going to require us to discuss every single little change for a book that may very well be dropped entirely?
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