Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> writes: > On 3/15/12 1:53 AM, Keshav Kini wrote: >> Please tell me if anything else about what I said, in my previous >> post(s) or this one, is insufficiently clear - I hope the diagrams are >> of some help! And of course I welcome comments about the other points I >> have made as well. > > > 1. First of all, it seemed that maybe the confusion stemmed from maybe > not seeing the critical point of your paragraph, which was the > *unless* part (emphasized below): > ----- > If we switch to git, as I understand we eventually will, patches > (commits) made from an older dev release will be considered to "not > apply" (not be mergeable) a lot more often than merely the cases when > other people have meanwhile touched the same files - in fact, *always* - > **unless** we make development releases based on their predecessors. > -----
Hmm, that would at least explain Georg's analogy to the linux kernel, indeed... On the other hand maybe Georg interpreted "based on the previous release" to mean something other than what I meant, viz.: If A is a dev release and B is another dev release, when I say that "B should be based on A", I mean that the commits in A should be a subset of the commits in B. Maybe Georg thought I meant that the commits in B must all be descendants of the HEAD commit(s) in A (this is not what I mean!). > Thanks for this email that you sent too. I was writing an email that > was about 1/10 as long and about that clear and comprehensive > explaining what you explained above. You did a much better job. > > 2. A big +1 to the process changes you describe, and a big +1 to the > long and very comprehensive (and I thought very clear) explanations > you are providing. And especially a big +1 to giving us specific > technical items to change. Disclaimer: I too have not done a Sage > release... Thanks! Positive feedback is always nice too :) -Keshav ---- Join us in #sagemath on irc.freenode.net ! -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
