Re: Choosing a moment for the Bazaar switchover.

[Stefan Monnier]

> All the todo items I know about are listed at
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/EmacsBzrSwitchover, and I'm happy to
> push on them.  We don't have a test branch yet; making one would be
> part of that.

Then we should add "test branch setup", "test branch tested",
"emacs-commit working" to that list.

> (I'm trying to avoid a situation where Sylvain works really hard to get
> everything set up, and then it's months before we actually switch, so it
> bitrots and some of the work has to be redone.)

Yes, that's fine by me.

>>> When should we do this?  Some options:
>>> 1) Now, i.e., as soon as the conversion is ready (in which case we'll
>>> start prepping knowing that it's for real this time).
>>> 2) When we branch for release.
>>> 3) Immediately after the release.
>> 
>> I think I'd prefer 2.  It should be a time where the release branch
>> (currently "trunk") doesn't see too much activity, which would help.

> Do we have a rough idea when (2) is?  (It's probably been talked about
> here, but... there's a lot of mail, and there are few on-web clues about
> the schedule.)

AFAIK it hasn't been talked about, really.  My rough guess is "sometime
in 2009".  Also, probably on the later part of 2009.


        Stefan