On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks < [email protected]> wrote:
> 2010/6/9 Holger Freyther <[email protected] <holger%[email protected]> > >: > > We were carrying the org.openembedd.dev branch name from the monotone > > era into the git era and the TSC was asked to consider renaming it to > > 'master' which is the git default for the main development tree. Now the > > actual change on the server will be minor what is of a bigger concern > > are the existing users and documentation. > > Technically speaking I think we should have run an RFC for this before > it was brought to the table of the TSC. > > Personally the org.openembedded.dev branch name does not bother me > although I know master is the 'standard' git name. > Afaik renaming does not really solve a problem. > Personally, I have to type it at least a few times a day, it gets old, and I think its time we ditched monotone remnants where we're able to do so. I am not too sure how much this affects the current users. Actually I > doubt if the change is bigger than the packages -> recipes renaming > Isse is that if we do that we should make sure all relevant > documentation is updated, otherwise we only create confusion (which > might still creep up as people use old mailing list articles). > > Considering this, I am in favour of keeping things as they are. If we implement this, I don't really see a problem doing it for the users: > > c.) To ease this for existing users and to reduce the amount of > > support org.openembedded.dev will track master and remains > > available for a limited but long amount of time. > -- Christopher Larson clarson at kergoth dot com Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus Maintainer - Tslib Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
