[illumos-Developer] -DeveloperTracking Oracle's ON

[Cyril Plisko]

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Richard Lowe <richlowe at richlowe.net> wrote:
> Giovanni Tirloni wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>  Since one major goal is to track Oracle's ON it seems the question of
>> how and when major integrations will be done is important. Has this
>> been discussed already ?
>
> It'd be most reasonable to merge at the build tags, as with any child of
> the ON gate.
>
> Which and how often are probably up in the air, if you'll accept advice,
> I'd suggest giving things some time to settle.  Garrett still hasn't
> finished cleaning up the fallout from his initial putbacks.
>

My own experience is that the most manageable way is to keep your work
as a set of patches against upstream. Mercurial is pretty efficient in
this regard.

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Regards,
        Cyril