Re: Backport or not: [macports-base] Support multi-valued maintainers

2016-11-13 Thread Ryan Schmidt
> On Nov 13, 2016, at 6:27 AM, Rainer Müller wrote: > > On 2016-11-12 22:30, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> We do actually have a "trunk" rsync directory. Isn't the purpose of >> that to allow users of master to selfupdate using it? I've never >> tried it. > > Even if you change the rsync_dir in macpor

Re: Backport or not: [macports-base] Support multi-valued maintainers

2016-11-13 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, to summarize: - The consensus seems to be that the feature should be in the next release. - We're not sure whether that next release should be 2.3.5 or 2.4, but it should definitely come from the release branch for 2.3.x. - There are risks associated with releasing a 2.4 that does not have

Re: Backport or not: [macports-base] Support multi-valued maintainers

2016-11-13 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2016-11-12 22:30, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > We do actually have a "trunk" rsync directory. Isn't the purpose of > that to allow users of master to selfupdate using it? I've never > tried it. Even if you change the rsync_dir in macports.conf, the version on master is always 2.3.99. This is the same

Re: Backport or not: [macports-base] Support multi-valued maintainers

2016-11-13 Thread Ryan Schmidt
> On Nov 12, 2016, at 3:30 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > Precisely. Which is why we mustn't cause a downgrade to occur for users of > master. Conveniently, https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52855 demonstrates one problem users will encounter if they downgrade.

Re: Backport or not: [macports-base] Support multi-valued maintainers

2016-11-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
> On Nov 12, 2016, at 3:23 PM, Rainer Müller wrote: > > On 2016-11-12 21:50, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >>> On Nov 12, 2016, at 2:03 PM, Lawrence Velázquez >>> wrote: >>> On Nov 12, 2016, at 12:44 PM, Rainer Müller wrote: master is definitely not in a state to be released, b

Re: Backport or not: [macports-base] Support multi-valued maintainers

2016-11-12 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2016-11-12 21:50, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> On Nov 12, 2016, at 2:03 PM, Lawrence Velázquez >> wrote: >> >>> On Nov 12, 2016, at 12:44 PM, Rainer Müller >>> wrote: >>> >>> master is definitely not in a state to be released, but the >>> roadmap should be discussed separately. Changing the main

Re: Backport or not: [macports-base] Support multi-valued maintainers

2016-11-12 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
> On Nov 12, 2016, at 3:50 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > One consequence that occurs to me is that people using master > currently have version 2.3.99. If we branch 2.4 from 2.3, then when > those users run selfupdate they would be "upgraded" to 2.4 which > doesn't contain all the features they had

Re: Backport or not: [macports-base] Support multi-valued maintainers

2016-11-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
> On Nov 12, 2016, at 2:03 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > >> On Nov 12, 2016, at 12:44 PM, Rainer Müller wrote: >> >>> On 2016-11-12 17:39, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> >>> Perhaps it should more properly be called 2.4, but since our master >>> is in no fix state to be branched for 2.4 at this ti

Re: Backport or not: [macports-base] Support multi-valued maintainers

2016-11-12 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
> On Nov 12, 2016, at 12:44 PM, Rainer Müller wrote: > >> On 2016-11-12 17:39, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> Perhaps it should more properly be called 2.4, but since our master >> is in no fix state to be branched for 2.4 at this time and we are >> still figuring out our release process on GitHub, i

Re: Backport or not: [macports-base] Support multi-valued maintainers

2016-11-12 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2016-11-12 17:39, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Many of the changes in 2.3.5 are to deal with the GitHub transition, so I > would be in favor of releasing this change now as well. https://github.com/macports/macports-base/blob/release-2.3/ChangeLog That would be only the warning on 'port sync' for us

Re: Backport or not: [macports-base] Support multi-valued maintainers

2016-11-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
> On Nov 12, 2016, at 9:33 AM, Clemens Lang wrote: > > Hi *, > > On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 04:19:44PM +0100, Clemens Lang wrote: >> >> https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/30c27d5d3ad169ffa5f55465cf9663dbd1ff7537 > >> commit 30c27d5d3ad169ffa5f55465cf9663dbd1ff7537 >> Author: Clem

Backport or not: [macports-base] Support multi-valued maintainers

2016-11-12 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi *, On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 04:19:44PM +0100, Clemens Lang wrote: > > https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/30c27d5d3ad169ffa5f55465cf9663dbd1ff7537 > commit 30c27d5d3ad169ffa5f55465cf9663dbd1ff7537 > Author: Clemens Lang > AuthorDate: Sun Nov 6 18:11:49 2016 +0100 > >