Lenny general freeze ahead
On Tuesday 03 June 2008 18:13:18 Daniel Baumann wrote:
> * In two weeks (2008-06-16): Deadline for features to be added or making
> 'incompatible' changes
> For everything else and to everyone else: *Please*, if you have
> patches send them as early as possible to the mailinglist so that they
> can be discussed and merged.
Done.
This mailing list did not discussed it a lot, maybe the features I added seems
not so valuable as I think: Debian Live regular users and d-l derivative users
will be happy to gain a so fine grain control on the now working snapshots if
this thing will be merged.
> Please respect the general common sense
> to split changes into individual context/topic patches.
This is what I intended to do, the context was "new release of live-snapshot",
sincerely. After thinking a little more, I could split it in two part:
/etc/live-snapshot.list feature and "live-snaphot --refresh" feature.
I just have no time to split to finer level, since I'm used to XP which leaves
you the good (IMHO) and bad (ITIYHO) habit to always refactor and reformat the
code one is working whit. So in a couple of seds I renamed the function names
like the rest of the code and cleaned the code (I saw you merged some minor
cleanups) while adding the first feature, then I saw the space and the use-
case for the --refresh helper.
> Bonus points
> if it's possible to merge them from a git branch.
This was done too. [0] I could rebase it if needed.
> * In four weeks (2008-06-30): Having all features of live-initramfs and
> live-helper verified to work and fixed bugs (or, if not working,
> marking them as experimental and place big warnings where appropriate)
I'm testing deeply my added features for work, I would like to spend my little
spare time to test more and add another helper to live-snapshot If I can ("--
automagical-init" for finding itself a writable partition with a nice
strategy).
> * In six weeks (2008-07-14): Having all features of live-initramfs and
> live-helper documented properly, in the packages itself (manpages) as
> well as in the live-manual.
As you saw, my new live-snapshot patch included manpages update (also a
translation :-)).
A good thing to rush to, should be the debian-installer integration and
testing (maybe I'll do in the work hours like latest 2 features If I could
convince again my boss we need this feature and push the priority up) .
I'm afraid I could not help more, but I need to program how to spend time
precisely, and my priority are on creativity (scratch the hitch) and bug
fixes. I really would enjoy more freedom in merging other code, strict rules
need time and effort to adhere, and there are diminishing return in really
using a cvs so precisely like you seems to enjoy (look latest 3 commits,
spaces, copyright and a version number... )
No critics, but please discuss without prejudice.
[0] http://git.debian.org/?p=users/mammadori-guest/live-
initramfs.git;a=summary
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