Re: [boost] [git] Near future.. How do we deal with git-native libraries?

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Beman Dawes wrote:

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Cox, Michael

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On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Daniel James wrote:

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On 3 December 2013 11:05, Cox, Michael wrote:

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- Now your new forked repo is linked to the official

boostorg/predef

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repo as a fork and you can submit pull requests to boostorg/predef. The Boost release manager will than pull in your changes from the develop branch of grafikrobot-boost/predef.

I believe the plan is for everyone to have write access to the repositories that they maintain and to update them themselves.

I was not aware of that. I expected the release manager(s) to only have write access and library maintainers to submit pull requests to them. So ignore my last few posts :-).

Only release managers have write access to the boost super-project. So they can still control quality in terms of what goes into official Boost releases. OTOH, Individual libraries can do their own releases whenever they want to. This decoupling is is part of why we hope that the Modular Boost structure will scale up to much larger numbers of libraries.

There may be a problem using submodules if library/tool developers don't have write access to the boost super-project. The "usual" process when using git submodules is that when making a commit to a submodule, you also make a commit in the super-project to add a submodule reference so that when anyone recursively clones or "submodule update"'s, all the submodules point to the latest changes. Is Boost not going to follow the "usual" process? If not, then developers need to know that after doing the recursive clone, they need to run "git submodule foreach git checkout develop" to point all the submodules to their latest changes. BTW, if the "usual" process is to be followed, I noticed libs/system and libs/multi_index don't have submodule ref commits in boost.git for their current HEADs. Also, noticed that tools/litre doesn't have a develop branch. Michael

--Beman

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