Re: Branching 1.6 this week? (no, next week)

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Hyrum K. Wright
<hyrum_wright_at_mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> [ note that I've reflowed this conversation so it'd readable. Please bottom
> post in the future. Thanks! ]

artifact of gmail, sorry

> Mark Eichin wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Hyrum K. Wright
>> <hyrum_wright_at_mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
>>> Mark Eichin wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Hyrum K. Wright
>>>> <hyrum_wright_at_mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
>>>>> New official branch date: Nov. 12.
>>>>
>>>> Does that suggest that the "empty revision range" fix could get
>>>> included in 1.6, if I could get some one to look at it in the next
>>>> week?
>>>
>>> I'm not familiar with the specific fix you are referring to, but the
>>> basic gist of what gets into a release and what doesn't can be found here:
>>> http://subversion.tigris.org/hacking.html#release-numbering
>>>
>>> Has the patch you refer to already been committed to trunk?
>>
>> http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2008-10/1170.shtml has the description,
>> suggested patch, and attached script to reproduce the problem by
>> creating a repository and doing some simple merges (subject: svn
>> mergeinfo bug with script to reproduce it (finally)! (was Re: empty
>> mergeinfo produced by svn_mergeinfo_inheritable))
>>
>> As far as release definitions go, I'd actually want to see it go in
>> 1.5.5 (since it breaks merges and was introduced in 1.5.0), but I
>> haven't gotten any responses (beyond another end user reporting that
>> they see the problem too...)
>
> You didn't answer my question, but I gather by your response that the patch
> isn't yet in trunk. At this point, it depends on if somebody finds the time to
> review the patch and commit the fix. With people working to get trunk in a
> branchable state, that might not happen for a while.

Correct - it's not on trunk, and noone's apparently found the time to
even run the reproduction test script.

> However, if the patch is a bug fix, there's no problem with it going into the
> branch after it's created, so you've got some home. I'd wait a couple of weeks
> for things to settle down and then poke people again.

Ah, I hadn't realized this project didn't do "bugs before features".
Also, I figured that if the branch date was moving because
merge-related tests were failing on trunk anyway, that whoever was
working on that would probably be looking at the relevant code anyway,
so it might be a good time to get it reviewed (or at least looked at
enough to make a ticket out of it, I haven't even seen that much
triage...)

Thanks for the advice.

> -Hyrum
>
>

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_Mark_ <eichin_at_thok.org> <eichin_at_gmail.com>
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