[Rock-dev] PROPOSAL(s): fixing recurrent breakage on the rock package sets

[Thomas Roehr]

On 12.12.2011 11:33, Janosch Machowinski wrote:
> The reasons against 2 are still valid. So it is not an option
> from my point of view. So either it is 1 or we leave it the
> way it is and hope that it just works in the future.
> Greetings
>       Janosch
>
> On 12.12.2011 10:52, Sylvain Joyeux wrote:
>> The rock package sets are shared among the next, stable and master
>> users. This scheme was based on the idea that people that would commit
>> on these package sets would "know what they're doing". I.e. would have read
>>
>>       http://rock.opendfki.de/wiki/WikiStart/Toolchain/Flavors
>>
>> Since it does not seem to be the case, I would propose two "fixes":
>>
>>     1. make the package sets "curated", i.e. have only a few select people
>>        that are allowed to change these package sets. Others would have to
>>        propose patches to the rock-dev mailing list
1 would be fine with me.
However, I still would like to avoid too much restriction and it might 
be sufficient to just reorganize orogen.autobuild / libs.autobuild , e.g.
first what goes into master, second what goes into flavor master and 
next, etc. and adding warnings before editing any of the
sections (especially involving next/stable).

Thomas

>>     2. branch off the package sets when we update next and stable.
>>
>> The original rationale for avoiding (2) is that, since we all share the
>> same package set definition, users of next and stable can also compile
>> packages that are only on master. We thought that it was critical in
>> order to make this master/next/stable scheme work.
>>
>> Thoughts ?
>


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