4.11 Branching

[Joel Sherrill]

On May 4, 2015 1:36:42 PM CDT, Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:
>There is for sure a lot to do before the release, but in terms of
>features the master branch is ready to turn into the 4.11 branch.  We
>can do all release related stuff on this branch.  With Git it is easy
>to back port changes provided the file system structure remains intact.
>There is no need to delay the RTEMS development.  I have currently more
>than two man months of patches pending and some of them will be
>difficult to merge if someone else works on cleanup patches with the
>current master.  We have the FreeBSD timecounters, the watchdog
>changes, a new thread queue implementation, fine grained locking for
>events, message queues and semaphores, a rework of the thread priority
>change procedure.

I am not opposed to making the branch but let's wait for Chris to wake up and comment.


>----- Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com> schrieb:
>> 
>> Sorry to reply again.
>> 
>> On 5/4/2015 9:24 AM, Gedare Bloom wrote:
>> > On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Thomas Doerfler
>> > <thomas.doerfler at embedded-brains.de> wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I am glad 4.11 will be branched soon. from our side, branching is
>ok.
>> >> So: Any open items left? Anything we can do to make the branch
>happen
>> >> soon? Any chance to do the branch within this week?
>> >>
>> > I get the feeling now the holdup is solely for Joel to manage the
>> > technical process. Any way to help him push through the various git
>> > commands and coordinate which repos need to have the same releases
>> > (RSB, examples-v2, others?) would probably be good.
>> Defining the process is a bit part of this. Chris also wanted to make
>> sure the
>> on-ramp documentation was up to date and clear.
>> 
>> As my last push illustrated, we also have remnants of CVS still
>laying
>> around
>> so at least a quick review of each repo to be tagged and released is
>needed.
>> 
>> Overall, Chris just wanted a publicly documented procedure and
>checklist.
>> 
>> > Alternately, if EB would be interested to suggest a "Release
>Engineer"
>> > for this job, it might be good to remove the burden and bottleneck
>> > from Joel.
>> >
>> >> We have held back a set of patches which are too new to be useful
>for
>> >> the 4.11 branch. On the other side we would like to commit them
>soon
>> >> without spoiling the branch point.
>> >>
>> >> wkr,
>> >>
>> >> Thomas.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Am 30.04.2015 um 16:11 schrieb Sebastian Huber:
>> >>> Hello,
>> >>>
>> >>> is there anything left that prevents us to do the branch now?  We
>can
>> >>> still do some work on the branch before we actually make the
>release.
>> >>>
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