[1757] in NetBSD-Development
Re: Operation of source-sipb
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Tue Sep 1 15:47:46 1998
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sipb-athena@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 01 Sep 1998 15:47:19 -0400
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of Tue, 01 Sep 1998 11:57:45 EDT
As per your message, I humbly request space in the dev cell for a
checked-out Linux-Athena source tree and Linux-Athena build tree, ala
/afs/dev/project/sipb for netbsd.
I think we should start with the source-sipb-8_2 tag, and create a new
branch from there. Then we can retrofit Aarons patches into the Linux
branch.
Comments?
-derek
Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
> I'd like to alert or remind linux-dev of a few things:
>
> * source-sipb tracks the Athena mainline. There are already
> post-8.2 changes on the Athena mainline (and in source-sipb)
> which are not necessarily well-tested. As far as I know,
> linux-dev has been dealing with the mainline and not with a
> release branch at this point. This is only mildly tenable
> for now, and will certainly become less tenable when more
> destabilizing changes hit the Athena mainline and are
> imported into source-sipb.
>
> * source-sipb has a release branch called source-sipb-8_2,
> which was used to build the recent NetBSD-Athena release.
> Unfortunately, the bulk of Aaron's work was committed after
> that branch was made, but the number of changes he's
> committed so far is manageable.
>
> Either linux-dev can share the release branch or it can have
> a separate release branch. Either way, people doing work on
> the release should have the necessary clue about CVS and the
> operation of source-sipb to know how to properly make patch
> releases--without making life difficult for the other port
> if the release branch is shared.
>
> * source-sipb has a review procedure. Nothing should just get
> committed without first going through sipb-source-reviewers.
> Please see /mit/source-sipb/doc/sipb.
>
> * The dev cell has a space commitment to the SIPB Athena
> ports. Things like the build volume for Linux, or a
> checkout of some hypothetical source-sipb-8.2linux tree, can
> come from the dev cell.
--
Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
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