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Re: sipb-source-commit: third/mh/conf MH.linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Wed Sep 2 16:45:18 1998
To: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>, sipb-source-commits@MIT.EDU,
linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 02 Sep 1998 16:45:00 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Nathan J. Williams"'s message of Wed, 2 Sep 1998 15:51:39 -0400 (EDT)
1) I think this is a good idea.
2) I'm willing to be this sucker^H^H^H^H^H^Hperson, provided that
you give me the necessary CVS clue on how to pullup changes from
the mainline into the release branch.
-derek
"Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
>
> >Modified Files:
> > Tag: sipb-athena-8_2
> > MH.linux
> >Log Message:
>
> I'd like to make two requests here:
>
> First, that changes to the release branch only happen as
> pullups from the mainline. I realize that in many cases the effect is
> the same, but it keeps a consistent worldview and makes it easier to
> track what changes that have been made on the mainline actually made
> it in to the release.
>
> Second, that the minimum number of people touch the release
> branch. For netbsd-dev, that was just one person; me. Since we have
> two development efforts using the same branch, it's find for linux-dev
> to have a person doing pullups, but I'd like it to be just one
> person. I think that this is desirable from the linux-dev release
> engeneering perspective as well as from my perspective of trying to
> maintain a stable NetBSD-Athena release.
>
> - Nathan
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