[Gnu-arch-users] Re: practical questions of archive ownership

[Neil Stevens]

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On Tuesday September 30, 2003 11:14 pm, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 02:48:09PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> > Still, I'm curious what will happen in the future with emacs and other
> > projects where there _isn't_ a strong central maintainer, and where
> > the notion of a gate-keeper for the canonical sources is unlikely to
> > be acceptable.  It may be that, as now, people do initial
> > development/testing in their own archive/branch, but merge into a
> > shared central
> > archive/branch.
>
> Here you want a patch queue manager. Your central archive then belongs
> to a program which does all the merging (conflicts are "handled" by
> bouncing the group of changes - no conflict resolution occurs in this
> archive). Developers just pitch bundles of changesets at it; it can
> also be responsible for running test suites and/or something like
> tinderbox. Arbitrary criteria can be implemented for what changes are
> allowed (like "must not cause it to fail to build").
>
> [I've been working out the design for such a tool bit by bit, and
> intend to implement one sometime in the next couple of months]

You'll be my hero when this comes out. :-)

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