On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Philip Balister <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/09/2010 10:57 AM, Chris Larson wrote: >> >> 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'm with Chris. The name is long and annoying. It is time to drop the > monotone/bitkeeper remnants.
yes I am also in favor of getting it simpler. Although I do have bash_completion for git still its annoying because there are more than one branch names that start with org.openembedded. > > Philip > >> >> 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. >>> > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel > _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
