[Io] Picking up where we left it

Todd Blanchard tblanchard at mac.com
Thu Mar 16 06:11:12 UTC 2006


I agree, I'm not entirely sure on proper procedure/etiquette either.

I'm also not sold on Monticello for managing changes to the image  
that may span packages.


On Mar 15, 2006, at 2:20 PM, Ken Causey wrote:

> OK, so do I understand correctly that what we are then at least
> attempting to do is all cooperate in growing a single 'version' of the
> image (a specific public version + the team's shared monticello  
> update)?
> This is in contrast to use each producing a 'diff' from the published
> image, and someone else (possibly the team leader) merging these  
> into a
> single monticello package which is then sent to the release team.
>
> If I'm understanding this correctly, what happens then when a new  
> public
> 3.9x version is released?  At that point we need to know whether or  
> not
> what we had been producing has been submitted to the release team and
> incorporated into the released 3.9x version.
>
> You may feel I'm picking at nits here.  But I know we had problems  
> with
> this when we started the Network team.  I'm not saying we can come up
> with an absolute answer right now.  But I am saying this needs to be
> given some thought and maybe when we get started we need to be in  
> fairly
> close communication and someone needs to be monitoring the resulting
> product to see if it's going to work.
>
> Ken
>
> On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 23:12 +0100, Cees De Groot wrote:
>> Resuming my proposal:
>>
>> - you take the latest image from the 3.9a pub ftp dir;
>> - you load in there the latest MC version from the Team's repository.
>> - hack away;
>> - save to the Team's repository;
>> - check for newer versions since you updated, if yes:
>> - - merge;
>> - - save new version.
>> - lather, rinse, repeat.
>>
>> Something like that?
>>
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