On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 11:30 -0800, Sean Hefty wrote: > Tom Tucker wrote: > > 3. Getting the core support in early will give us time to tweak, tune, > > and test. I think this is a very good thing. > > I'm not disagreeing, but my concern is that if we start applying changes to > the > trunk to support branches we can end up maintaining a large amount of code > that > might not even be used. The maintainers end up needing to track branches to > know if they're active, and if a branch ever falls off, then a fair amount of > work needs to go back into cleaning up the code. I don't think that most > open > source projects go this route. > > - Sean
I think your points are very valid. However, I'd like to propose that a few things make these particular changes different: - I (hopefully "We") are certain that iWARP devices _will_ be present, i.e. the changes won't amount to dead code, - We are certain that there are developers today that rely on these changes, - Merging in the trunk now helps them get there sooner since they don't have to track changes to the trunk in a separate branch. Thanks, Tom _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list openib-general@openib.org http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
