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[Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 3, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Francis J. Lacoste wrote:

> Hi Gary,
> 
> Very nice write-up, thanks a lot!
> 
>> Simplify the merge machinery, eliminating buildbot and testfix mode and 
>> thereby hopefully reducing emergencies for the build engineer. Robert will 
>> hopefully hack PQM to give this pattern a whirl soon, and Paul and Tim will 
>> hopefully get Merge Queues and tarmac ready to implement the pattern just a 
>> bit later. 
> 
> I spoke with Paul on Friday, and it seems that with the latest change coming 
> in Tarmac 0.4, we won't really require merge queues to make this work with 
> Tarmac. It adds the required functionality or merging a bunch of branches 
> together if the test suite pass.

Fantastic news!  Yay, Paul!  :-)

Gary