Roadmap for 1.7.9

Roadmap for 1.7.9

[Junio C Hamano]

I do not do roadmaps, so the title of this message is not quite correct,
but I think I should post my current thinking on what have been cooking so
far that deserve to be polished further to be in the next release.

I've been aiming for a release cycle that lasts for 8 to 10 weeks, and the
last 2 or 3 weeks of a cycle is meant for release candidate testing that
we fix only regressions, which means we need to see how much we can do
within 5 to 8 weeks. The current cycle is expected to end at the end of
January next month [*1*].

I am not so worried about small and obvious fixes and enhancements, and
changes in the periphery areas. They can and will be merged as they come
and cook long enough in 'next' without issues reported by their users. I
expect what have been cooking in 'next' during the feature-freeze before
the 1.7.8 release, other than the ones listed below, to be more or less
ready already and they should be in 'master' shortly.

Now, here are the biggies that we would want to try to have in reasonable
shape before the next release. The list may be a bit too ambitious, given
that this cycle overlaps with end-of-this-year/beginning-of-new-year
holiday season in various cultures.

 * Credentials and keychain (Peff)
 * Pulling signed tag (me, Linus)
 * Update "request-pull" script with information that matters (me)
 * Revisiting threading of grep (Rene, Thomas Rast)
 * Optimization of reading hierarchical refspace lazily (Michael Haggerty)

I expect the following will not make much progress without further
discussion:

 * Signed commit (me)
 * Ignored vs Precious (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy)
 * Sequencer (Ram, Jonathan Nieder)

I think the following are too big to be ready by the end of this cycle
(polishing could and will continue as time permits).

 * Large-files
  - bulk check-in (me)
  - "Chunked" encoding of large files (me)


[Reference]

*1* https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=jfgbl2mrlipp4pb6ieih0qr3so%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles

Re: Roadmap for 1.7.9

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 21:07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> Now, here are the biggies that we would want to try to have in reasonable
> shape before the next release.

I'd like to get the i18n series into 1.7.9 as well. I think it's ready
as-is but some minor issues are sure to arise.

If time permits I'd also like to have a series of po/*.po files in as
well once it's in "master". Maybe as a submodule, which would be neat
in itself as we'd start dogfooding submodules.

Re: Roadmap for 1.7.9

[Junio C Hamano]

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 21:07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> Now, here are the biggies that we would want to try to have in reasonable
>> shape before the next release.
>
> I'd like to get the i18n series into 1.7.9 as well. I think it's ready
> as-is but some minor issues are sure to arise.

Surely.

My impression was that the part that can have interactions with the
existing codebase is already in, and it is just the matter of updating
what _() ans Q_() actually do, which can be reverted out quickly if it
turns out to be necessary, and that was why I didn't count it as part of
the "biggies" that make us worry.

Re: Roadmap for 1.7.9

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 23:47, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 21:07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Now, here are the biggies that we would want to try to have in reasonable
>>> shape before the next release.
>>
>> I'd like to get the i18n series into 1.7.9 as well. I think it's ready
>> as-is but some minor issues are sure to arise.
>
> Surely.
>
> My impression was that the part that can have interactions with the
> existing codebase is already in, and it is just the matter of updating
> what _() ans Q_() actually do, which can be reverted out quickly if it
> turns out to be necessary, and that was why I didn't count it as part of
> the "biggies" that make us worry.

That's the gist of it. But it's still a massive 1300 line patch,
which:

 * Calls setlocale(LC_MESSAGES)
 * Uses an evil trick to only call setlocale(LC_CTYPE) while loading
   message catalogs
 * Might have some portability problems on more obscure OS's.
 * Has some tests I've only tested on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris

So it might have some little surprises, and it would be nice to have
it in master early on so we'll give it plenty of time to cook and
discover any issues before 1.7.9.

Re: Roadmap for 1.7.9

[Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy]

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:07 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> I expect the following will not make much progress without further
> discussion:
>
>  * Ignored vs Precious (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy)

I'm working on adding --exclude-standard and --exclude-from to
read-tree. Apart from that I don't plan on supporting precious files
because I don't use them.
-- 
Duy