Re: Update on the timeline for the release v1.2.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> skribis:

> Le 21 octobre 2020 11:57:48 GMT-04:00, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> a 
> écrit :

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>>Yeah we could also branch on the 26th and cherry-pick harmless changes
>>from ‘master’, so people can still have fun on ‘master’.
>>
>>Mathieu, Marius, Maxim, Tobias: thoughts?
>
> Wouldn't that mess up with guix's authentication mechanism? If we branch v1.2 
> early, our release will have no forward path to master, so all our users will 
> get an error when running guix pull.

No, that’s fine as long as there’s a path from the source commit to the
target commit.

It’s the same as running ‘guix pull --branch=staging’ today for
instance.

Ludo’.