On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 07 May 2013 20:51:07 +0200, Krinkle <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> It is the duty of repository co-owners to make wise decisions beyond
>> just code quality. About what changes go in what release (if at all),
>> whether the introduced features are in the best interest of the users
>> and that we can maintain them and are willing to support them. And to
>> be aware of whether a change is breaking or not, and if so if whether
>> the change should still go in the current release or a the next (e.g.
>> don't remove/break without deprecation first, if possible).
>
>
> So in other words, this puts more burden on reviewers, making it harder to
> get changes merged, especially for new users?
>
> Because that's what this sounds like. Changes are already rotting in gerrit
> for a year (see the recent watchlist thread), and this certainly will not
> help.
>
>
> The current process for release notes is fine; we just need someone to write
> a custom merge driver for JGit to avoid the merge conflicts. This is a
> technical issue, not a policy one.
>

As I said many times before, this isn't really necessary since JGit now
supports recursive merges, it's just experimental so I hadn't turned it on.

-Chad

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