Re: RFC: strategy for merging the N770 changes

Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> I have been thinking about how to get the N770 changes into the main
> tree; personally, I would like to see this done before we release 2.4,
> even if means delaying the release. By the time N770 is unleashed on the
> world 2.4 should be our stable release, and I would like us to be able
> to show it of on it; having it in 2.4 from day one seems to make sense
> to me. (Others might feel otherwise, and we need to weigh the pros and
> cons.)
>
> I think the first necessary step, whatever the timetable, is to get the
> port into our CVS. Since the N770 port is based on 2.2.7, a best
> starting place would seem to me to be a 2.2.7_n770 branch, and merging
> things in that branch. Once it is done, we would have the option of
> merging that back into STABLE, and forward-porting into HEAD (although
> realistically, merging it back into stable seems uncessary if do this
> before 2.4 and meaningless after 2.4). Others might have better
> suggestions; CVS is not my niche.

Wait that I get the device I won in the Nokia giveaway at GUADEC :-)

Cheers,

Hub
Received on Sun May 29 14:18:49 2005