Re: Proposal that we now create two branches - 2_5 and head

2003-01-29 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 14:16, Martin Pool wrote: > On 30 Jan 2003, Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > Actually, a bigger "attitude" issue for me is having a separate > > rsync-devel and rsync-user lists. I have almost unsubscribed many times > > because of the numerous newbie user q

Re: Proposal that we now create two branches - 2_5 and head

2003-01-29 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 05:44:32PM -0800, Madole, Dave BGI SF wrote: > > I agree with this. I am in a situation where I don't install rsync > myself, I have to depend on sysadmins to do it. They get very nervous > and insist on installing it as something like "rsync2_5_5" because they are > afr

Re: Proposal that we now create two branches - 2_5 and head

2003-01-29 Thread Martin Pool
On 30 Jan 2003, Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 07:40, Green, Paul wrote: > > jw schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > > > [general discussion of forthcoming patches removed] > > > > > All well and good. But the question before this thread is > > > are t

RE: Proposal that we now create two branches - 2_5 and head

2003-01-29 Thread Madole, Dave BGI SF
hey? Dave > -Original Message- > From: Green, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 8:14 PM > To: Rsync Mailing List (E-mail) > Subject: Proposal that we now create two branches - 2_5 and head > > > I'd like to suggest that thi

Re: Proposal that we now create two branches - 2_5 and head

2003-01-29 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:40:36PM -0500, Green, Paul wrote: > Having a production branch will remind us that we have a place to put > stability or security fixes, and will make it easy to do so. I think I see now how you're viewing this branch -- as something to keep updated with fixes in paralle

RE: Proposal that we now create two branches - 2_5 and head

2003-01-29 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 07:40, Green, Paul wrote: > jw schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > [general discussion of forthcoming patches removed] > > > All well and good. But the question before this thread is > > are the changes big and disruptive enough to make a second > > branch for the

Re: Proposal that we now create two branches - 2_5 and head

2003-01-29 Thread Max Bowsher
'jw schultz' wrote: > I'm concerned about patches getting into the "production" > branch that don't get forward ported. Hmm, dangerous. > This is CVS, we can always extract a tagged version. And create the branch from there, at a later date, IIRC ? So, development can continue on HEAD, right no

Re: Proposal that we now create two branches - 2_5 and head

2003-01-29 Thread 'jw schultz'
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:40:36PM -0500, Green, Paul wrote: > jw schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > [general discussion of forthcoming patches removed] > > > All well and good. But the question before this thread is > > are the changes big and disruptive enough to make a second > > b

RE: Proposal that we now create two branches - 2_5 and head

2003-01-29 Thread Green, Paul
jw schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: [general discussion of forthcoming patches removed] > All well and good. But the question before this thread is > are the changes big and disruptive enough to make a second > branch for the event of a security or other critical bug. Agreed. > Person

Re: Proposal that we now create two branches - 2_5 and head

2003-01-29 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:41:40PM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 18:22, Craig Barratt wrote: > > > I have several patches that I'm planning to check in soon (I'm waiting > > > to see if we have any post-release tweaking to and/or branching to do). > > > This list is off the t

RE: Proposal that we now create two branches - 2_5 and head

2003-01-29 Thread Green, Paul
jw schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:24:57PM +1100, Martin Pool wrote: > > On 28 Jan 2003, "Green, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I think splitting the branches will also let us be a little more > > > experimental in the development branch, at least

RE: Proposal that we now create two branches - 2_5 and head

2003-01-29 Thread Green, Paul
Martin Pool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > On 28 Jan 2003, "Green, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think splitting the branches will also let us be a little more > > experimental in the development branch, at least until we get near > > the next release phase, because we'll always ha

Re: Proposal that we now create two branches - 2_5 and head

2003-01-29 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 18:22, Craig Barratt wrote: > > I have several patches that I'm planning to check in soon (I'm waiting > > to see if we have any post-release tweaking to and/or branching to do). > > This list is off the top of my head, but I think it is complete: > > And I have several thing

Re: Proposal that we now create two branches - 2_5 and head

2003-01-28 Thread Craig Barratt
> I have several patches that I'm planning to check in soon (I'm waiting > to see if we have any post-release tweaking to and/or branching to do). > This list is off the top of my head, but I think it is complete: And I have several things I would like to work on and submit: - Fix the MD4 block

Re: Proposal that we now create two branches - 2_5 and head

2003-01-28 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:24:57PM +1100, Martin Pool wrote: > I agree that this would be a good approach if and only if there is > energy to do lots of development in the head branch. What do you have > in mind? I have several patches that I'm planning to check in soon (I'm waiting to see if we

Re: Proposal that we now create two branches - 2_5 and head

2003-01-28 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:24:57PM +1100, Martin Pool wrote: > On 28 Jan 2003, "Green, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think splitting the branches will also let us be a little more > > experimental in the development branch, at least until we get near > > the next release phase, because

Re: Proposal that we now create two branches - 2_5 and head

2003-01-28 Thread Martin Pool
On 28 Jan 2003, "Green, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think splitting the branches will also let us be a little more > experimental in the development branch, at least until we get near > the next release phase, because we'll always have the field release > in which to make crucial bug fixe

Proposal that we now create two branches - 2_5 and head

2003-01-28 Thread Green, Paul
I'd like to suggest that this is now a great time to create two separate cvs branches for the rsync product. One, which I'll tentatively call 2_5, would hold the version of the code that has been released to the world as 2.5.6. The other, which I'll tentatively call head, would hold the development