9 Feb 19:31
[quagga-dev 9041] Committing New Features to Master Branch?
Ward, David - 0663 - MITLL <david.ward <at> ll.mit.edu>
2012-02-09 18:31:22 GMT
2012-02-09 18:31:22 GMT
Quagga maintainers, Would it be possible to commit new features to the master branch at the same time as (or before) committing them to the RE-testing branch? Having new features initially only in RE-testing limits their testing exposure and may keep people who run the master branch from discovering bugs earlier, before releases. I understand that maintainer time is limited, but if a patch for RE-testing also applies cleanly to master, can it just be committed to both branches? Part of the reason I am asking is that I also use some extensions to Quagga that are developed externally: - OSPFv3 MDR (http://cs.itd.nrl.navy.mil/work/ospf-manet/) - PIM SM (http://www.nongnu.org/qpimd/) These external branches are based off of master, not RE-testing, which makes sense as they are experimental in nature. As a researcher, I would like to be able to, for example, try out the Babel routing protocol alongside OSPFv3 MDR in wireless networks. However, Babel is in RE-testing and not master, and trying to integrate the code bases in order to build one copy of Quagga gets unnecessarily difficult because of this. (Of course, it would be ideal if the above extensions could make their way into the mainline Quagga at some point... I'm not sure what the right timing or process would be for something like that, and I am not their maintainer.) At the moment, the following patch groups have been applied to RE-testing-0.99 but not to master:(Continue reading)
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