On 1/23/13 1 :28PM, "Alex Harui" <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
> > > >On 1/23/13 10:12 AM, "Carol Frampton" <cfram...@adobe.com> wrote: >>>>>> Personally I think it is a much better use of Alex's time to >>>>>>continue >>>>>> to work on the the JS stuff >>>>> Which is why I asked if there was a way the community could help. >>>> >>>> The answer is no. Unfortunately the community can't help. The >>>>majority >>>> of the work has to be done inside Adobe before the code can even be >>>> brought to Apache. In my couple of month estimate I did not include >>>>any >>>> test suites. >>> I'm not quite sure the answer is no. For sure, if we do the donation >>>the >>> way we did the trunk, us Adobe folks have lots of work to do and the >>> non-Adobe folks can't help. But I'm hoping we can eventually donate >>>3.x >>> without having to do that because 3.x is a fork of what is already >>>donated >>> to Apache. We would give up some amount of accuracy in the SVN >>>history, >>> but >>> that might be ok. >> >> Isn't it the other way around? Flex 4 is a fork of Flex 3. I'd >> definitely not worry about the SVN history but even so I don't >>understand >> what you are proposing. >> >Sure, Flex 4 is one tine of the fork, the other is Flex 3. But we already >donated the Flex 4 'tine', and trunk at Adobe had Flex 4 stuff, so I am >calling the 3.x branch the 'fork'. If you look, there haven't been that >many checkins to it since the revision that became Flex 4. I think we >only >need to either commit a patch for each of those revision, or create one >patch that represents the difference between that revision and the current >state of 3.x. Or we could branch from the head of the Apache Flex trunk >and >reverse out everything needed to result in the head of 3.x. We'd get the >headers right that way. It sort of depends on what we want SVN history to >show. Theoretically I suppose this works but it sounds awfully complicated to get right especially without the benefit of the Adobe svn version history to trace the changes/branching of the files. Say I were to get 3.x from Open@Adobe. I pick a file and the version in 3.x is different from the version at Apache. How do I easily figure out if I can back out enough changes from the version we have at Apache to match the 3.x version? I do not think we should bother worrying about the SVN history. The time investment is not worth it. Carol
