[storm] Update branch format for trunk?

[Jamu Kakar]

Hi,

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 6:01 PM, James Henstridge <james at jamesh.id.au> wrote:
> Currently the Storm trunk is stored in the old pack-0.92 format that
> dates back to the Bazaar 1.0 release.  We've got a few branches
> tracking storm stored in the newer "2a" format (made default in Bazaar
> 2.0), and I was wondering if anyone would object to changing the trunk
> to the newer format.
>
> My main reason for asking this is that changes can only be moved in
> one direction between these formats (i.e. we can pull pack-0.92
> changes, but nothing can go in the other direction).  So moving the
> trunk forward would reduce the chance that I'd need to redo commits in
> order to create a mergeable branch.
>
> It would also have some direct benefits, since Launchpad can handle
> the newer branches better by stacking them on the trunk branch..  In
> other words, uploading a new branch will only upload the changes you
> made rather than Storm's entire history (which is currently ~ 3.5MB).
>
> The obvious down side is that if we upgrade the trunk, everyone else
> will need to upgrade their branches if they want to pull new changes
> from trunk.  They will also need to make sure they have Bazaar 2.0 or
> later.
>
> So what do others think?

+1 from me.  Note that we have an open RT with Canonical's
operations staff to have all Storm branches upgraded.

Thanks,
J.