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  • From: Tony Smith <tony AT smee.org>
  • To: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>, Grimoire <sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] Smaller devel grimoire
  • Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:43:39 +0100

On Wednesday 17 September 2003 12:42 pm, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:

> There's no 'test maintainer' anymore, all developers directly change
> spells in test.

Then you'll be the one to feel the pain.

> > You'll end turning the history of each file in devel into a series of
> > add/edit/delete cycles which will be meaningless and more importantly
> > would also require more careful handling by the test/stable maintainers
> > when the integrate the changes over.
>
> The history of spells in devel would be strange, i agree with that. But
> it wouldn't really hurt, since the "real history" would be the one of
> the spell in test.

Learn how integration in Perforce works before you make your final judgement
on this... You can do it this way, but it hurts.

> Download time is just a minor side effect of this. The main advantage
> would be that it makes it much easier to see what spells are being
> worked on. It would also lessen the workload of the gurus, since
> currently for every spell i update i have to update it and then
> integrate it into test. With the proposed change i'd just update it in
> test, and only use devel for spells that are work in progress.

All fine and dandy, but it doesn't address the central question: what happens
when a spell stops being work in progress. That's the rub.

Tony





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