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[Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:38:53 +1300, Robert Collins <robert.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Max Kanat-Alexander
> <mkanat@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Â - To enable this, we're going to put the work on trunk which isn't
> >> yet deployable in Launchpad into a new 'future' branch, and reset
> >> trunk back to 1.18
> >
> > Â  Â  Â  Â I think the fact that jam has done nearly all the work required to
> > stabilize trunk in a single day proves that this is unnecessary.
> >
> > Â  Â  Â  Â It seems likely that creating that "future" branch means it will never
> > be looked at, and instead of adopting the sweeping architectural changes
> > which fix most of loggerhead's problems, you will waste time re-fixing
> > all of that piecemeal with a poorer architecture.
> >
> > Â  Â  Â  Â I do understand the value of your plan, though. Perhaps the best
> > solution would be to give jam some time to see what he can do, and then
> > make the decision after that.
> 
> John has some time from Martin to do just that; if/when he is
> successful, his work can be merged into the consolidated trunk,
> released & deployed - nothing is meant to prevent that; merely not to
> make doing that a high stress zomg urgency thing required to unblock
> bugfixes and maintenance.

If there's anything specific I can do to help with getting the
history-db stuff deployed, please ask.  I'm pretty convinced it's an
improvement in every way we actually care about.

Cheers,
mwh