[squeak-dev] Inbox

Keith Hodges keith_hodges at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Aug 12 15:04:16 UTC 2009


Ken Causey wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 14:49 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>   
>> I just merged a Monticello fix from the inbox (thanks Bernhard!) to  
>> the trunk. Now that this package is dealt with, what do we do? Perhaps  
>> we need an "inbox-merged" repository where we can move these packages?  
>> Or possibly two repositories for accepted and rejected packages? Can  
>> all developers move versions between repositories, or only admins?
>>
>> - Bert -
>>     
>
> I have to say I've wondered about this myself.
>
> Regarding 'who' moves them:  I assume you are asking about policy rather
> than technical capability.  Unless you are doing this some way I'm not
> aware of anyone who has write capability can do it.  In terms of policy
> I would be comfortable mapping it to capability, which is to say that
> all core-devs can move packages from inbox to trunk.
>
> That said, you bring up a good point regarding tracking what has been
> done.  As it stands you have to see what is in inbox and then look at
> the listing in trunk to see if that file is in the listing there.  Of
> course that ignores the possibility that it's not actually in the
> ancestry of the current latest version and is ultimately overlooked that
> way.  It would also be useful to provide some easy feedback for those
> submitting issues to the inbox indicating when their submission has been
> accepted.  Perhaps it's time for our own SqueakSource branch.
>
> Ken
>   
So it turns out that this "new process" of yours isn't a process at all,
you are making it up as you go along.

So on the one hand you tell me that my process is not understood by the
community so lets replace it with a process that no one understands
because there isn't one.

Keith



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