Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
Just an idea, without _fully_ understanding the infrastructure, man
power etc ramifications.
Since the move to git, would it not be easier to allow features to
branch rawhide, get their individual bits together (syncing with 'trunk'
periodically)... Then like the kernel does, merge back the working bits
to rawhide for the alpha. Which would essentially then be making sure
that the features that were merged in play nice together?
Each approved feature gets a branch of what would be rawhide, they can
do their thing insulated from others till they are ready, like the
python stuff, having all the packages built aside till they are all
ready, and then being merged into rawhide when they are ready and
tested...
The problem is, if they're more than one change requiring a partial or total
mass rebuild (e.g. Python and Boost which both required many rebuilds for
dependencies), the sets of packages to rebuild often intersect (and for
Python and Boost, they did, in fact even Boost itself needed to be rebuilt
for Python), complicating that process.
Kevin Kofler