Re: [SSSD] Fate of ding-libs branches

[Stephen Gallagher]

On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 18:55 -0500, Dmitri Pal wrote:
>  On 03/06/2012 03:52 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: 
>  > The ding-libs development on master has been virtually stagnant for many
>  > months now. Much of what is included on the master branch is
>  > partially-completed concept work that was originally going to be done as
>  > part of a nebulous 1.0 future.
>  > 
>  > Given that the ding-libs 1.0 has been effectively abandoned (and that
>  > the ding_libs-0-1 branch has been remarkably stable for a long time),
>  > I'd like to recommend that we branch the current master off (perhaps
>  > name it 'experimental') and then reset the master branch to be identical
>  > to the current contents of ding_libs-0-1.
>  > 
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>  I would not rush with it frankly but for a different reason. The
>  libcollection is now being evaluated as a mean for doing internal
>  implementation of the structured logging. I have couple patches for it
>  that I need to polish and submit. I plan to do it in couple weeks.
>  Until we sort out the fate and use of libcollection I do not think it
>  makes sense to do the reorganization of otherwise stable tree.
>   
Well, that's my point. The code in master is currently not stable. Some
of it is still work-in-progress for features that were never completed.
I'd rather see us make changes atop the known-stable tree and abandon
these ill-fated forays.

>  Also we need to get someone continuing the work in this area and
>  finish the work on the INI and bring it to the final release. There is
>  not much left but should be enough for thesis. I can work with Jan on
>  that. 
I don't see how it's easier to base this off of a broken master than it
is off of a stable branch.