Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: gnuarch 1.2.1 released! (reannouncement)

[James Blackwell]

In lists.arch.users, you wrote:
> Aaron Bentley <address@hidden> writes:
>>> Does Tom's devo branch contain all these changes?  I'm personally using
>>> a branch tagged off of "address@hidden/tla--devo--1.3".
>>
>> No, but Blackwell's tla--devo--1.3 branch contains all Tom's changes. 
>> You can use apply-delta to switch.
>
> Is there any particular plan for the future relationship of these
> branches (Tom's and James'), and the bug system?  If James is likely to
> do most of the bug merging in the near future, his branch would seem the
> best to base my branch on (so that any bug fixes I send will merge
> easily), but really I have no idea what's going on behind the scenes at
> arch central... :-)

It goes something like this: 

If you have bug fixes, minor features, and other otherwise "safe" stuff,
then tag off of me. I have a ~ 1 month cycle: 2 weeks for merges, 2+
weeks for code freeze. If a bug is found in an rc, then a new rc is
shipped, and the freeze clock restarts.

If you are doing changes to furth, xl-whatever, etc, then tag off of -t
and send patches that way.

command deltions/archive incompatible changes are in limbo right now. If
furth comes along "soon", then send those to Tom. If furth takes "a long
time", then I'll open up a 1.3 development window, and we'll lump all of
those patches together, and do a 1.3rc1.

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