It would be nice is we had a place where it is ok to make such changes, and a place for stable incremental changes.
-stable -unstable In absence of that, I agree with the consensus. Cheers, Tim ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Till Toenshoff" <toensh...@me.com> > To: "mesos" <dev@mesos.apache.org> > Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 2:13:12 PM > Subject: Large changes on the codebase due to MESOS-1872 > > Hey Everyone, > > I would like to reach out to the developer community for making sure that we > find a consensus on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-1872 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-1872> and other, entire > code-base affecting changes. > > Evelina has bravely proposed three review requests (mesos/libprocess/stout) > for covering the ticket. There is however some greater risk involved and I > wanted to be sure that we are all aware of the pro’s and con's of such big > cleanups. > > + we may need to do cleanups - even major ones at some point, hence I think > we need a consensus once and for all regarding tickets of the above nature > - almost all existing RRs will possibly get invalid and everyone with work in > flight needs to rebase (possibly rather tedious task in particular case). > > There may be more. > > The only way I can currently see this happening with minimal friction is > finding a certain date and even time for doing this on a very quick, > propose/review/commit. > > What do you think? > > cheers! > Till > > -- Cheers, Timothy St. Clair Red Hat Inc.