[oe] [RFC] Merging of stable/2009 into dev

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Phil Blundell wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 11:42 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > Ok but what is the planned migration path from users that used
> > stable/2009 to stable/2010?
> >
> > I mean, when we start stable/2010 we expect that users that based
> > their distros in stable/2009 need to redo all work to move to
> > stable/2010? If we merge stable/2009 into .dev then this is going
> > to be much easier.
>
> I am still struggling to understand what you mean by "merge
> stable/2009 into .dev".  Can you please explain what exactly you
> think the result of this merge would look like?  Maybe you could
> pick a couple of sample packages and give a concrete description of
> how the merged version would differ from what is currently in .dev.

  what *is* the protocol for a new OE release?  if one were to emulate
kernel development, it would normally involve, perhaps, starting a new
branch headed toward, say, stable/2010, where packages would slowly be
frozen and, as the release date approached, we'd see tags like "rc1",
"rc2" and so on, and a final freeze and tag of "stable/2010", no?

  in the meantime, the .dev branch would chug merrily on.  is that
even remotely close?

rday
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