Re: [DRAFT PATCH 000/143] Meson integration for 5.2

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 11:02:34AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 09:56:42AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> [...]
> >> I think it's now time to plan the end game, preferably without even more
> >> weeks of intense rebasing.
> >> 
> >> Do we have consensus to move forward with Meson?  If yes, I'd like to
> >> propose to aim for merging as early as practical in the 5.2 cycle.
> >> Rationale: rebasing build system changes on top of the Meson work is
> >> probably easier than rebasing the Meson work, and avoids turning Paolo
> >> into an overworked bottleneck.
> >> 
> >> In more detail:
> >> 
> >> 1. Pick a tentative deadline.
> >
> > I'd suggest we need a bare minimum of half a development cycle to.
> > So if we want it tin 5.2, we need to make a strong push now and over
> > next month to review it and iron out any obvious blocking testing
> > problems.
> 
> I had less than a "now and over next month" (>7 weeks!) in mind.

To be clear, I'm not recommending we wait that long - I'm just
suggesting that is an upper bound after which we'd really need
to wait for the dev cycle after.

Ideally we would make a strong push to get it merged just 2 weeks
after this release, ie by early september.

> The choice of deadline is really about how much of Paolo's time we are
> (and he is!) willing to spend on rebasing vs. how much risk of toothing
> problems in master we are willing to accept.
> 
> "First thing after 5.2 opens" would be ideal from a "avoid more
> rebasing" point of view, but it may not be practical.
> 
> Once the flood gates are open, we can probably just as well wait for the
> initial flood to subside.

All depends how quickly Paolo thinks it get to mergeable state....

Regards,
Daniel
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