I'm bumping this, as part of the problem that needs sorting is where to manage 
security patches that need doing around 151. I had an agenda item for last 
week's meeting to discuss this.

Hopefully we'll be able to discuss this at today's meeting (which *is* 
happening? ;->).

On 18 May 2011, at 18:54, Bayard Bell wrote:

> Just a couple of notes as I've been been a bit frustrated with the way that 
> merge queues are used in OI. I've got nothing against merge queues, it just 
> seems that the source should be offered with merges already done. OI source 
> should be accessible in the repos for cloning or browsing without requiring 
> someone to merge. That's not to say that the patches shouldn't also be just 
> as accessible, as well as the upstream source. It doesn't seem auspicious to 
> me that the top of the OI builds docs contain a pointer to a page on using 
> MQ. What I'd prefer to see is a source namespace that looks like:
> 
> hg.openindiana.org\
>       upstream\
>               illumos-gate\
>                       onnv_147\
>                       [etc.]
>               userland-gate\
>                       build-165\
>                       [etc.]
>               [etc.]
>       oi\
>               illumos-gate\
>                       oi_147\
>                       [etc.]
>               userland-gate\
>                       oi_147\
>                       [etc.]
>       mq\
>               illumos-gate\
>                       onnv_147-oi_147\
>                       [etc.]
>               userland-gate\
>                       build-165-oi_147\
>                       [etc.]
> 
> If people want to see what's in OI or pull OI source, there it is. OI 
> releases under active development may be a separate case that require people 
> to pull merge queues. I've also been thinking about how to maintain patches 
> for CVE audits/incident response going forward. What I'd suggest, building on 
> the previous suggestion is just to have a second series of merge queue that 
> goes on top of an OI release and is regularly merged into the release, so 
> that it can remain private. Thus:
> 
> 
>       sec_mq\
>               illumos-gate\
>                       oi_147\
>                       [etc]
>               userland-gate\
>                       oi_146
>                       [etc.]
> 
> I'll admit some of this is just plain branding: OI, as source should be able 
> to be somewhat self-referential. If people want to understand how it works 
> back upstream, fine, but the current system comes across to me as a bit 
> baroque. I'm sure I don't entirely appreciate the reasoning of the current 
> system, but hopefully your responses will get me there.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bayard

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