Re: Status of ‘core-updates’

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hi Steve,

Steve George <steve@futurile.net> skribis:

> On 10 Apr, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

[...]

>> To be clear (but I guess it’s crystal clear to anyone who’s been around
>> long enough :-)), what we need most is someone to keep track of changes,
>> coordinate efforts, decide what goes in the branch and what’s postponed
>> or moved to a separate branch, and send periodic (weekly) status updates
>> over the course of a couple of months.  This can (and probably should)
>> be done without doing any actual hacking on the branch.
> (...)
>
> This sounds like something I can do:
>
> - track changes (in branch)
> - co-ordinate blocking issues (in bug system)
> - co-ordinate with people doing the actual work :-P
> - send (periodic) weekly emails
> - encourage shipping by minimising scope creep ;-)

Awesome, thanks for volunteering!

> Sounds like there's already agreement to revert the 'pkgconf' change and push a new branch without them which becomes 'core-updates'. Josselin on IRC I had the impression you were working on that?

I’m not sure what the situation is (I see Maxim just pushed changes on
top of current ‘core-updates’, so maybe it’s OK?).

Josselin, Maxim: could you explain what problems there are around
pkgconf and what you would recommend?

Thanks,
Ludo’.