Re: [Chicken-hackers] Master has been merged into chicken-5 branch

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi Christian,

On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:59:53 +0200 Christian Kellermann <address@hidden> wrote:

> I have just merged the last master commits into chicken-5.

Many thanks for doing that.

> The idea is that we will do a final 4.10 release and then continue to
> work on the chicken-5 branch which could be merged back into master
> then.

Alright.

> So for newer patches you should base them on the chicken-5 branch.
> Bugfixes worth of including into 4.10 will be backported from there.
>
> What do you think?

I wonder if we should adopt that policy now.  Until we have a well
shaped CHICKEN 5, I was expecting patch submission to master (currently
4.x) and merging them into chicken-5.  The rationale for this is:

* We have a long road to CHICKEN 5

* CHICKEN 5 will be smaller, with less code, so it's easier to target
  CHICKEN 4 and remove code that don't apply to CHICKEN 5; than submit
  patches to CHICKEN 5 and backport them to CHICKEN 4 -- patches that
  target CHICKEN 5 may be incomplete for CHICKEN 4.

Does that make sense?

For the sake of clarity and organization, I propose that patch
submissions exclusive for chicken-5 explicitly indicate that (e.g., in
the subject header).

Best wishes.
Mario
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