The slip down memory lane

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 09:49:42 -0600,
  "Nathanael D. Noblet" <nathanael at gnat.ca> wrote:
> 
> 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?

With no frozen rawhide and early branching, I don't think this is really
necessary, you can do development in rawhide and go back to the branch
when ready.

Most features are fairly independent and don't cause problems when they run
late or have problems, outside of that feature. Some are somewhat disruptive
and can make it hard to test other things while they are having their kinks
worked out or just waiting for rebuilds of dependencies to be completed.
Those can cause a problem if they happen too close to a freeze since they
result in work needing to be done in a very short time frame.