Re: [ros-dev] Branches status & cleanup

[Pierre Schweitzer]

On 10/07/2013 11:03 PM, Aleksey Bragin wrote:
>   Hello!
>  I would like to inject more life into our branches and hence need to
>  remove as much dead bodies from that area as possible. And I need your
>  feedback!
>  Please comment on that list. like - needs to be merged, useless, could
>  be deleted.
>  aicom-hardware-fun
>  "Branch for my hardware support work and other stuff". Last commit
>  17th of May, 2010. Bring back Cromwell as a temporary USB stack until
>  mjmartin finishes the new one, Implement missing storage stack drivers
>  (storport, ataport, etc), Work more on the PnP manager.
>  Obsolete?
>  aicom-network-branch
>  Last commit was 4th of August, 2011. Another branch for networking
>  fixes. "If someone wants to delete aicom-network-fixes, they are
>  welcome to"
>  alex-network-branch
>  Last commit was 24th of December, 2006. Some parts are still not
>  merged. What a shame!
>  arty-newcc
>  New CC implementation by arty. It stays.
>  arty-stable
>  Arty - do you need it? No problem in keeping it, if you need it.
>  arwinss
>  Aleksey - do you need it? Yes I do!! :-) 
I would have put that one as first candidate for deletion :-).
>  audio-bringup
>  Johannes? Last commit 26 of April, 2011.
>  c++-bringup
>  Very promising name and just one commit by jgardou, 8th of March,
>  2012. Jerome?
>  cmake-bringup
>  I think we switched to CMake already. Any reason to keep this branch?
>  dib_rewrite
>  Timo's great work.
>  GSoC_2011
>  Five subbranches. What's their status? Were they all merged?
>  icu4ros-bringup
>  Empty branch. Amine, would you comment whether it's necessary?
>  iut-mmc
>  Pierre? 
So far, don't touch, I'll delete when needed.
>  jcatena-branch
>  MSVC work. Needed?
>  kd++
>  By Hermes. I think, it's needed.
>  lean-explorer
>  Lean explorer by Martin Fuchs. Last touched in 2006.
>  nocc
>  Special "nocc" cache manager. It stays.
>  nslookup
>  I guess lsuggs gave up on that. But the idea was nice.
>  ntvdm
>  We all know [TheFlash]. Stable progress. Good work.
>  nyadav-audio-branch
>  Last commit dates to year 2011. Nyadav?
>  olpc
>  One awesome Laptop Per one awesome Child. We can keep it a bit more
>  for historical reasons.
>  pierre-fsd
>  Pierre's presumably great work. 
AFAIK, IIRC, this has been merged in arty-newcc and some parts even to
trunk. So, I'd say, candidate for deletion.
>  reactx
>  GreatLord's work on DirectX. Status unknown. Sylvain?
>  ros-amd64-bringup
>  Timo - is it still relevant, or did you already merge it in trunk?
>  ros-csrss
>  Last commit says "Ready for merging (TM) :)". ORLY? :-)
>  shell32_new-bringup
>  Mr. Mihail, you around? Anyone knows state of that work?
>  sspi-bringup
>  Samuel? What's with that branch?
>  tcp-rewrite-branch
>  LWIP. I think it's integrated into trunk long time ago? Last commit -
>  year 2010
>  the-real-msvc
>  KJK's work which stopped in 2008. Anyone could comment whether there
>  is anything we haven't achieved with CMake yet?
>  Tree-restructure-test
>  Playground for restructuring the tree. "Let's reshuflle the files and
>  directories and that makes our OS more stable and usable". Last commit
>  was almost exactly 3 years ago.
>  usb-bringup-trunk
>  Johannes? Still need that?
>  vs_jc
>  jjones? Do you plan to continue working on that?
>  wlan-bringup
>  Cameron, how's it going?
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Pierre Schweitzer <pierre(a)reactos.org>
System Administrator
ReactOS Foundation