[maint] The GDB maintenance process

[David Carlton]

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:57:20 -0700, Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.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@math.stanford.edu