Re: [Opencog-dev] staging and main

2008-10-27 Thread Linas Vepstas
2008/10/27 Linas Vepstas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/10/24 Cassio Pennachin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: AFAIK, policies have not been changed. The messages you mention are accurate. I guess I don't understand the policy. I can't help noticing that no one seems to ever commit to the main branch. When

Re: [Opencog-dev] staging and main

2008-10-27 Thread Cassio Pennachin
Once staging is deemed stable enough, Gama will merge it into main. On Oct 27, 2008, at 3:23 PM, Linas Vepstas wrote: 2008/10/24 Cassio Pennachin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: AFAIK, policies have not been changed. The messages you mention are accurate. I guess I don't understand the policy. I can't

Re: [Opencog-dev] staging and main

2008-10-27 Thread Gustavo Machado Campagnani Gama
Hi, On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 14:21 -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote: Over-write? I've been doing 100% of my development in main, based on the assumption that was the easiest, most sensible thing to do. I certainly would not want to see my (several months) worth of work over-written! Surely the

Re: [Opencog-dev] staging and main

2008-10-27 Thread Linas Vepstas
2008/10/27 Cassio Pennachin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Linas, No one is talking about overwriting your work. Follow policy and this issue disappears. What can I say? I get the impression that we all have a different idea of what the policy is. If we all agreed as to what the policy was, and

Re: [Opencog-dev] staging and main

2008-10-27 Thread Trent Waddington
Staging is for people who want to dump their work into the project and leave the burden of ensuring that it breaks nothing else on other developers. Main is for Linas, the only guy trying to actually do something useful with the code at the moment. When the first group of people become

Re: [Opencog-dev] staging and main

2008-10-27 Thread Linas Vepstas
2008/10/27 Cassio Pennachin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Linas, What can I say? I get the impression that we all have a different idea of what the policy is. If we all agreed as to what the policy was, and actually followed it, then we wouldn't be having this conversation. Right? I'm not aware

Re: [Opencog-dev] staging and main

2008-10-27 Thread Gustavo Machado Campagnani Gama
Hi again, I'll skip what has been already answered by others to try to keep this a bit shorter. On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 17:20 -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote: I don't know what has been said over and over, and I don't know what it means to say should be branching off of staging. What should be

Re: [Opencog-dev] staging and main

2008-10-27 Thread Linas Vepstas
2008/10/27 Gustavo Machado Campagnani Gama [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 17:20 -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote: I don't know what has been said over and over, and I don't know what it means to say should be branching off of staging. What should be branching what off of which staging,

Re: [Opencog-dev] staging and main

2008-10-27 Thread Gustavo Machado Campagnani Gama
Wow. This is really hard. I must be doing something really wrong here. On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 23:19 -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote: From then on, it's up to you how to merge/rebase the current changes from main. Wow. Its up to me? Yes. Well, kinda. Not in the way you seem to have understood

Re: [Opencog-dev] staging and main

2008-10-27 Thread Ben Goertzel
Egads!!! I go offline for one day and this is what happens??? ;-) After skimming this surprisingly lengthy email thread, the situation with these different branches and the related policies is quite clear to me, although I hadn't really been paying attention to it before, as I'm not actively

Re: [Opencog-dev] staging and main

2008-10-27 Thread Trent Waddington
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, someone made a statement that Linas is the only one doing serious work on OpenCog, or serious AGI-ish work on OpenCog. This is silly, and completely false. Linas is doing important work, of course, and the

[Opencog-dev] staging and main

2008-10-24 Thread Joel Pitt
Hi all, I can't help notice that some of us are working on staging and others on main. I think this is a worse situation then just having separate branches and rebasing and committing to main. So I'd like to clarify this... Are we using staging for main development work, pushing to main

Re: [Opencog-dev] staging and main

2008-10-24 Thread Gustavo Machado Campagnani Gama
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 23:57 -0700, Joel Pitt wrote: Are we using staging for main development work, pushing to main whenever things are settled in staging? Well, I've been following David's plan, as outlined here: https://lists.launchpad.net/opencog-dev/msg00388.html

Re: [Opencog-dev] staging and main

2008-10-24 Thread Cassio Pennachin
AFAIK, policies have not been changed. The messages you mention are accurate. On Oct 24, 2008, at 12:59 PM, Gustavo Machado Campagnani Gama wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 23:57 -0700, Joel Pitt wrote: Are we using staging for main development work, pushing to main whenever things are