1.6 home straight

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Martin Pool wrote:
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> Unfortunately I have to drop this mail and run, as I'm going on
> vacation for two weeks.  John has kindly offered to take over as
> release manager for 1.6 and also to run 1.7.  I hope that we (and when
> I say we I mean you :-) can merge just the most necessary fixes for
> 1.6, get it out, and then get back on a regular schedule.
> 

I didn't realize I had signed up for both, but what the heck :)

I just want to mention that I'm going to be rather conservative on what
makes it into 1.6, because we've been delaying for far too long.

>  * log has regressed; I think we should put back the hint to read the
> whole index before doing per-file log that was present in 1.5.  This
> would mean we have not removed the restriction that the indexes must
> fit in vm, but for things that do fit they'll be substantially faster.
>  It might be nice to add a cleaner "just a hint" api that does not
> mandate loading everything, but that could wait for a later release.

This, IMO, is not a critical fix. Mostly because someone has to do the
actual coding to get it to work. I'm not 100% sure how to do it
tastefully, and I'm sure Robert isn't interesting in working on it. If I
had a fix right now, that I could merge, then I might.

I dislike that log has regressed, it is especially bad for 'bzr log
somefile', but it also regressed for plain 'bzr log'.

I suppose I would like to know from Martin just how important this one
is, because IMO it has the strong likelyhood of causing 1.6 to slip by 1
to several days. (At a minimum 1 day to write a fix, get it reviewed and
approved, and merged.)

>
>  * https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/256409 "inconsistent delta with
> deleted directories" - this has not yet been reproduced either by the
> user or by us; Robert proposed a prophylactic check against this kind
> of revision which should be merged to 1.6; it does not seem like a
> good idea to slip the release.
>

I haven't seen a specific fix for this one, so again, no merging without
an actual fix available.

>  * Jelmer has 'fix copying of root revision in inventory' which is
> approved and should be merged to 1.6.
>

submitted to 1.6

>  * I believe there is a Windows-specific fix (?) which does not have
> 1.6 in the subject but wants to be merged across.
>
> Is there anything else?
>

I'll respond later in the thread.

John
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