{"thread":{"id":"29088","subject":"Roadmap for 1.7.9","startedAt":"2011-12-05T20:07:57Z","lastAt":"2011-12-06T11:16:18Z","messageCount":5,"participants":["Junio C Hamano","Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason","Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"180313","messageId":"7vd3c2lr36.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"29088","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Roadmap for 1.7.9","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2011-12-05T20:07:57Z","receivedAt":"2011-12-05T20:07:57Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"I do not do roadmaps, so the title of this message is not quite correct,\nbut I think I should post my current thinking on what have been cooking so\nfar that deserve to be polished further to be in the next release.\n\nI've been aiming for a release cycle that lasts for 8 to 10 weeks, and the\nlast 2 or 3 weeks of a cycle is meant for release candidate testing that\nwe fix only regressions, which means we need to see how much we can do\nwithin 5 to 8 weeks. The current cycle is expected to end at the end of\nJanuary next month [*1*].\n\nI am not so worried about small and obvious fixes and enhancements, and\nchanges in the periphery areas. They can and will be merged as they come\nand cook long enough in 'next' without issues reported by their users. I\nexpect what have been cooking in 'next' during the feature-freeze before\nthe 1.7.8 release, other than the ones listed below, to be more or less\nready already and they should be in 'master' shortly.\n\nNow, here are the biggies that we would want to try to have in reasonable\nshape before the next release. The list may be a bit too ambitious, given\nthat this cycle overlaps with end-of-this-year/beginning-of-new-year\nholiday season in various cultures.\n\n * Credentials and keychain (Peff)\n * Pulling signed tag (me, Linus)\n * Update \"request-pull\" script with information that matters (me)\n * Revisiting threading of grep (Rene, Thomas Rast)\n * Optimization of reading hierarchical refspace lazily (Michael Haggerty)\n\nI expect the following will not make much progress without further\ndiscussion:\n\n * Signed commit (me)\n * Ignored vs Precious (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy)\n * Sequencer (Ram, Jonathan Nieder)\n\nI think the following are too big to be ready by the end of this cycle\n(polishing could and will continue as time permits).\n\n * Large-files\n - bulk check-in (me)\n - \"Chunked\" encoding of large files (me)\n\n\n[Reference]\n\n*1* https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=jfgbl2mrlipp4pb6ieih0qr3so%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles\n"},{"id":"180315","messageId":"CACBZZX6aC-E4DxaZzzhfGnK8ovBGCq_gNG3hPU7QjfAiNb3WrA@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"29088","inReplyTo":"7vd3c2lr36.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","subject":"Re: Roadmap for 1.7.9","fromName":"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason","fromEmail":"avarab@gmail.com","sentAt":"2011-12-05T21:24:33Z","receivedAt":"2011-12-05T21:24:33Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"avarab@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/45301?v=4"},"body":"On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 21:07, Junio C Hamano wrote:\n\n> Now, here are the biggies that we would want to try to have in reasonable\n> shape before the next release.\n\nI'd like to get the i18n series into 1.7.9 as well. I think it's ready\nas-is but some minor issues are sure to arise.\n\nIf time permits I'd also like to have a series of po/*.po files in as\nwell once it's in \"master\". Maybe as a submodule, which would be neat\nin itself as we'd start dogfooding submodules.\n"},{"id":"180323","messageId":"7vr50ik55n.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"29088","inReplyTo":"CACBZZX6aC-E4DxaZzzhfGnK8ovBGCq_gNG3hPU7QjfAiNb3WrA@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Roadmap for 1.7.9","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2011-12-05T22:47:00Z","receivedAt":"2011-12-05T22:47:00Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes:\n\n> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 21:07, Junio C Hamano wrote:\n>\n>> Now, here are the biggies that we would want to try to have in reasonable\n>> shape before the next release.\n>\n> I'd like to get the i18n series into 1.7.9 as well. I think it's ready\n> as-is but some minor issues are sure to arise.\n\nSurely.\n\nMy impression was that the part that can have interactions with the\nexisting codebase is already in, and it is just the matter of updating\nwhat _() ans Q_() actually do, which can be reverted out quickly if it\nturns out to be necessary, and that was why I didn't count it as part of\nthe \"biggies\" that make us worry.\n"},{"id":"180325","messageId":"CACBZZX6=eYaebLdQrLvvaXPKFLYj_-7QGrco7gnXPjh8hjOQ=w@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"29088","inReplyTo":"7vr50ik55n.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","subject":"Re: Roadmap for 1.7.9","fromName":"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason","fromEmail":"avarab@gmail.com","sentAt":"2011-12-06T00:02:16Z","receivedAt":"2011-12-06T00:02:16Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"avarab@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/45301?v=4"},"body":"On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 23:47, Junio C Hamano wrote:\n> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes:\n>\n>> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 21:07, Junio C Hamano wrote:\n>>\n>>> Now, here are the biggies that we would want to try to have in reasonable\n>>> shape before the next release.\n>>\n>> I'd like to get the i18n series into 1.7.9 as well. I think it's ready\n>> as-is but some minor issues are sure to arise.\n>\n> Surely.\n>\n> My impression was that the part that can have interactions with the\n> existing codebase is already in, and it is just the matter of updating\n> what _() ans Q_() actually do, which can be reverted out quickly if it\n> turns out to be necessary, and that was why I didn't count it as part of\n> the \"biggies\" that make us worry.\n\nThat's the gist of it. But it's still a massive 1300 line patch,\nwhich:\n\n * Calls setlocale(LC_MESSAGES)\n * Uses an evil trick to only call setlocale(LC_CTYPE) while loading\n message catalogs\n * Might have some portability problems on more obscure OS's.\n * Has some tests I've only tested on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris\n\nSo it might have some little surprises, and it would be nice to have\nit in master early on so we'll give it plenty of time to cook and\ndiscover any issues before 1.7.9.\n"},{"id":"180366","messageId":"CACsJy8DFe2so2gqR_DGAgNkB7J5JBqvGc6pEaxXpDhzZC82cZA@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"29088","inReplyTo":"7vd3c2lr36.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","subject":"Re: Roadmap for 1.7.9","fromName":"Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy","fromEmail":"pclouds@gmail.com","sentAt":"2011-12-06T11:16:18Z","receivedAt":"2011-12-06T11:16:18Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"pclouds@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/720?v=4"},"body":"On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:07 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:\n> I expect the following will not make much progress without further\n> discussion:\n>\n>  * Ignored vs Precious (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy)\n\nI'm working on adding --exclude-standard and --exclude-from to\nread-tree. Apart from that I don't plan on supporting precious files\nbecause I don't use them.\n-- \nDuy\n"}]}