The road to the merge

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:31:51PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 21:40 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 03:30:15PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > [...] it is pretty clear that there is not a small amount of work to
> > > be done, and I'd really rather not interrupt the mad dash to get
> > > things in before the Test3 freeze, since that is the Feature Freeze
> > > as well. [...]
> > 
> > > Basically I want to give people a status update on where things are going, and 
> > > what work still needs to be done, and what our expectations are.  I welcome 
> > > input around when and how to flip the switch and whether or not dropping 
> > > this "feature" in after the feature freeze is acceptable.
> > 
> > I'd argue that this feature is a meta-feature (e.g. it should not
> > really be observable when someone grabs the final product what kind of
> > buildsystem was used), so perhaps the feature-freeze does not really
> > apply to this part. So, I think it's acceptable to add it after test3.
> 
> Yes and no.  With a merged collection of packages (which can't happen
> before koji is in place),

Why not? (Just curious, no disbelieve :)

> you could potentially start enabling some features in what were Core
> packages that previously couldn't be done because the libs (or
> whatever) resided in what was Extras.

It would probably mean that no BR from premerge-extras to
premerge-core will be allowed until then, which would be sad, but
probably bearable.

What would you suggest otherwise as an alternative? Slip test3? No
feature freeze until test4?
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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