Re: branches_of_interest.txt

2018-07-02 Thread Tom Lane
Andres Freund writes: > On 2018-07-01 11:41:07 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> I can see the value of people other than you being able to change it, >> but keeping it in the core repo seems like a kluge not a proper solution. > FWIW, I've a manually maintained version of this in the scripts I use to >

Re: branches_of_interest.txt

2018-07-02 Thread Andres Freund
On 2018-07-01 11:41:07 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Dunstan writes: > > This file on the buildfarm server is used to tell clients which branches > > we'd like built. When a new stable branch is created it's added manually > > to this file, and when one gets to EOL it's removed from the file.

Re: branches_of_interest.txt

2018-07-02 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 8:18 AM, Andrew Dunstan > wrote: >> An alternative would be to create a special branch within the core >> repo for such data, something like this (The first two lines are the >> ones that are most important): >> ... >> The new branch won't share any hi

Re: branches_of_interest.txt

2018-07-02 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 8:33 AM, Robert Haas wrote: > On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 8:18 AM, Andrew Dunstan > wrote: >> Ideally this would be done as part of creating the new branch. Since >> the web site doesn't have the same set of committers, a second metdata >> repo like this seems sensible. >> An al

Re: branches_of_interest.txt

2018-07-02 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 8:18 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Ideally this would be done as part of creating the new branch. Since > the web site doesn't have the same set of committers, a second metdata > repo like this seems sensible. > An alternative would be to create a special branch within the cor

Re: branches_of_interest.txt

2018-07-02 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 4:45 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 10:39 AM, Peter Eisentraut > wrote: >> >> On 01.07.18 17:41, Tom Lane wrote: >> > I can see the value of people other than you being able to change it, >> > but keeping it in the core repo seems like a kluge not a

Re: branches_of_interest.txt

2018-07-02 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 4:39 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 01.07.18 17:41, Tom Lane wrote: >> I can see the value of people other than you being able to change it, >> but keeping it in the core repo seems like a kluge not a proper solution. >> In particular, once it'd been around for awhile so t

Re: branches_of_interest.txt

2018-07-02 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 10:39 AM, Peter Eisentraut < peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > On 01.07.18 17:41, Tom Lane wrote: > > I can see the value of people other than you being able to change it, > > but keeping it in the core repo seems like a kluge not a proper solution. > > In particula

Re: branches_of_interest.txt

2018-07-02 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 01.07.18 17:41, Tom Lane wrote: > I can see the value of people other than you being able to change it, > but keeping it in the core repo seems like a kluge not a proper solution. > In particular, once it'd been around for awhile so that the master copy > had diverged from the back branches' cop

Re: branches_of_interest.txt

2018-07-01 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan writes: > This file on the buildfarm server is used to tell clients which branches > we'd like built. When a new stable branch is created it's added manually > to this file, and when one gets to EOL it's removed from the file. This > is a rather cumbersome process, and it occurre