--On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 11:59 PM +0100 Hallvard Breien Furuseth
<h.b.furuseth(a)usit.uio.no> wrote:
Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:11 PM +0100 Hallvard Breien Furuseth
> <h.b.furuseth(a)usit.uio.no> wrote:
>
>> I think we should leave the current CVS-style branching model and
>> make better use of Git. 'master' is currently two things: The
>> development branch, and getting in the way it's an abandonware
>> repository: slapmodify, vc, etc. Maybe that's harsh, but if it is not
>> abandonware, why are the authors not finishing it so it can be released?
>> Some of it is years old.
>
> Abandonware? What are you talking about? Both of those, AFAIK, are 2.5
> features, which is why they haven't been released.
Aha, I hadn't caught that. I remember slapmodify (or the companion LDIF
api?) is buggy and had the distinct impression that this is well known.
I may have been thinking of contrib:ucn rather than contrib:vc.
<grepping...> a note from hyc @ irc: "ITSs against it [usn] should be
discarded since we already know it's not meant to be used". WTF...
Anyway, why can't slapmodify, <libldif replacement>, vc be finished and
go in RE24? contrib/ stuff does not get in the way, but companion
libldap/slapd differences beween master and RE24 do. They get in the
way of testing, cherry-picking etc.
There's a point at which a release tree is "feature frozen", and generally,
new features are not to get added into it, although we certainly break this
rule fairly regularly (delta-syncrepl, back-mdb both immediately come to
mind). But if we pulled everything we've done in the master branch to
RE24, then we'd have nothing to show for RE25 so far. ;)
In any case, whether or not to pull those things into RE24 from the master
repository is generally Howard's call as Chief Architect.
--Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
A Division of VMware, Inc.
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