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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 06:07:28PM +0100, Benoit PAPILLAULT wrote:
> Andrew a ?crit :
> >On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 03:16:06PM +0100, neuron wrote:
> >
> >>>Some of you may know that we (the sorcery team) have undergone a project
> >>>to modernize the resurrect feature of sorcery. I have the new version
> >>>prototyped in a sorcery sub-branch (//sgl/sorcery/proj/proj3). I've
> >>>tested it and I believe it works. A recently updated specification for
> >>>it is here: http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=Improved+Resurrect
> >>>This will fix several sorcery bugs and is a committed sorcery 1.12 
> >>>feature.
> 
> I've seen that you have updated both document (about resurrect and 
> install_root). I'll read them. However, I found pretty strange to 
> request feedback when the design has been done, the implementation has 
> been done and the sorcery team has already decided that it will be a 
> commited feature. What kind of feedback do you want? bug reports only?

I guess I didnt state my intentions clearly, I apologize.

I didnt say the design is done OR that the work is done (on resurrect),
I said that the work had been /prototyped/, and I also stated in the
design that some things may be subject to change, hence this discussion.

I (personally) find it hard to have a reasonable design discussion on
something relatively abstract such as resurrect and to me discussing
before I have any code isnt going to be productive as I dont know how
many people stay up at night thinking about the fine grained details
of resurrect. I would spend half my time trying to explain what the
problem is and not get anywhere, instead I take the "shut-up and code"
approach. People had an idea of what we wanted to do, I did what would
fulfill my requirements and theirs. Now that we have a reasonably working
prototype, and something to go from its easier for people to say "oh
i think it should do foo before bar, or qux instead of blah". This is
called "review".


> 
> As far as the proj3 branch is concerned, is it branched from devel or 
> stable? (I'd be happy to use it ASAP in the ISO, but so far, the ISO has 
> only used sorcery stable, which is more stable that 'devel' like the 
> name imply).

It is branched from devel, all proj branches are, by definition, we dont
do feature development work on the current stable series.

> 
> >>>Since this is a pretty substantial feature I am requesting feedback on
> >>>it. Also if any brave souls want to test it before I force it upon you,
> >>>feel free to install from the proj/proj3 branch, I'll be happy to post
> >>>a tarball for non-developers who dont have access to our repository if
> >>>they are interested. Also if there are things you think that should be
> >>>different than what is listed in the spec please bring them up now so
> >>>we can discuss them. Thank you.
> 
> I'll try to test it ASAP. I'm mainly interested for resurect feature to 
> use it in the ISO installer.
> 

Thanks, I appreciate it.

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