Re: Experimental branch for GRUB

2009-10-24 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 04:35:32PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > I also propose to have some kind of version string which would identify > from which experimental branch the grub was compiled and putting a > warning at the end of configure script so users would exercise > additio

Re: Experimental branch for GRUB

2009-10-24 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 03:08:37PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 03:45:28PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > I think building deb from snapshots of this experimental branch is a good > > idea, and it can be done in any place you see fit, BUT if a proprietary > > solution

Re: Experimental branch for GRUB

2009-10-23 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
> We might want to create a unified repo for grub and grub-extra. As > grub doesn't support external module building, split it in two parts > is not convenient for both developer and user. Therefore, we can > maintain an unified source tree in the experimental repo, and push > patch to the corres

Re: Experimental branch for GRUB

2009-10-23 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Bean wrote: > Hi, > > I think it could be beneficial to have a experimental branch for GRUB. > Minor bug fixes can be applied to mainstream directly. But for big and > intrusive changes, such as the new menu system, we can place it in the > experimental branch first. Users interested in the latest

Re: Experimental branch for GRUB

2009-10-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 03:45:28PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > I've to go soon and can go in more detail later, but user branches work > fine. I put two of my local patchsets there just a few minutes ago, > check http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/grub/people/robertmh/. > > I think building deb fro

Re: Experimental branch for GRUB

2009-10-23 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 03:06:02PM +0800, Bean wrote: > > Hi, > > I take a quick look at bazaar, it seems to be working fine. However, > if we are to use bazaar, I suggest we host the project at launchpad, > for several reasons: > > Launchpad have a nice web interface. > > Launchpad can build u

Re: Experimental branch for GRUB

2009-10-23 Thread Bean
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 05:17:55PM +0800, Bean wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I think it could be beneficial to have a experimental branch for GRUB. >> Minor bug fixes can be applied to mainstream directly. But for big and >> intrusive changes, such as

Re: Experimental branch for GRUB

2009-10-22 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 05:17:55PM +0800, Bean wrote: > Hi, > > I think it could be beneficial to have a experimental branch for GRUB. > Minor bug fixes can be applied to mainstream directly. But for big and > intrusive changes, such as the new menu system, we can place it in the > experimental br