Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: OpenEmbedded looking to jump ship

[Thomas Keller]

William Uther schrieb:
> > No, the server always has a recent mtn (mtn-0.39 at the time). A 
> > developer pushed 200 bogus revs (from a vendor that didnt want to use 
> > branches and thus committed straight to org.oe.dev and an employee 
> > that pushed to the OE server from his vendor DB), which got suspended, 
> > but antother developer with an old mtn merged them, since that mtn 
> > didn't know about suspend certs.
>
> So the 'problem' was that we had too much 'backward compatibility' where 
> suspend certs are concerned.  i.e. it was possible to use an older 
> version of monotone to break things.
>
> This is a tricky problem to solve.  It would have been a bad thing™ to 
> force everyone to upgrade their mtn when we introduced suspend certs - 
> not everyone uses them.

On the summit we talked about a way to let the server block clients 
(f.e. through a lua hook) which do not fulfil certain version criteria. 
This would, however, need a change deep inside netsync, because mtn does 
not exchange these data. It would not change much for the current 
problem with suspend certs, but for similar changes in the future.

Would people find such a feature useful?

Thomas.

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