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Re: [maint] The GDB maintenance process
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:57:20 -0700, Kevin Buettner <kevinb at redhat dot com> said:
> For the contract work that Red Hat itself does, Red Hat does not
> depend solely on the external (sources.redhat.com) respository. Red
> Hat has an internal repository that it uses for customer work. From
> time to time, the public repository is merged to Red Hat's internal
> repository. Also, from time to time, work that was performed for a
> customer which couldn't immediately go into the public repository is
> pushed out to the public.
Thanks for the info; that sounds sensible.
It would be nice if there were a scheme that allowed such development
to go on smoothly while still making it as easy as possible for
changes in separate repositories to make it into the mainline. I
don't really know to do that, though.
David Carlton
carlton at math dot stanford dot edu