Re: ds/generation-numbers (was Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jun 2018, #01; Fri, 1))

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> writes:
>>   A recently added "commit-graph" datafile has learned to store
>>   pre-computed generation numbers to speed up the decisions to stop
>>   history traversal.
>>
>>   Will cook in 'next'.
>
> On Wednesday, these were marked as "Will merge to 'master'" What changed?

Nothing has changed.  "Will merge to 'master'" means "This is now in
'next', and unless there is some blocking breakage found, this topic
will be merged to 'master' eventually".  It does not even say if
that eventuality is before or after the release the current cycle is
working towards.

When it comes near pre-release feature freeze, things in 'next' need
to be sifted into various bins, and their labels are updated.  The
ones that are too big to be comfortably merged to the upcoming
release after -rc0 has passed (i.e. biggies are better merged early
to the 'master' in the cycle to give it full cycle of larger
exposure) will be kept in 'next' so that it can go first after the
final, the ones that are low risk but with higher importance will be
merged to 'master' before the release, the ones that are trivial,
distracting and lower value (i.e.  the ones that force i18n teams
extra work) may be held in 'next', and the ones that deserve a
chance to freshly restart are marked to be kicked back to 'pu'.
Etc. etc.