On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Ed Burns
<Ed.Burns@sun.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:07:23 -0500, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen@gmail.com> said:
DA> At the EG meeting, we discussed creating a JSF 2.1 branch. To our surpirse,
DA> we learned that this branch has already been created:
DA> https://mojarra.dev.java.net/source/browse/mojarra/branches/2_1_BRANCH/
DA> But Jim informed us that while it exists, it hasn't been updated in a while.
DA> Given how much collaborative development happens on JSF, I wonder whether it
DA> would be reasonable to request that we use a distributed system for
DA> prototyping (not necessarily that Mojarra has to move). Project Kenai is the
DA> supported distributed revision "forge" inside of Sun, and that would be
DA> accetable, though I will mention that Seam is looking to move to Git at
DA> Github.com, so we are partial to Git.
DA> So, before you work to update the branch, Jim, is there any chance we could
DA> do forks at Kenai? http://kenai.com/ Otherwise, we would like to request
DA> that the branch be updated.
My plan was to merge the branch back into HEAD and do the work there.
Oh. But isn't it better to prototype large changes in branches? (Like file upload) That way we can commit, share, stomp on it, etc without breaking the HEAD.
-Dan
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