Re: Moving Lua source codes

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2013, Marc Balmer wrote:
> Well, you are in contradiction to our guide, which under 
> http://www.netbsd.org/releases/release-map.html#current states 
> that "NetBSD-current is the main development branch".

NetBSD-current the main development branch for things that we know 
we want, and that we are prepared to support for a long time, and 
that mostly work.  If any of those tests fail, then I'd say that 
the code should not be in -current, but could be in a branch or in 
pkgsrc or in some third party tree.

In the case of kernel Lua, some people are not convinced that we 
want it, and some people are not convinced that the API is stable 
enough that we should commit to long-term compatibility for it.

Although I think that developing in the main -current tree is 
acceptable (especially if users are told not to expect as much 
future compatibility as for most other parts of NetBSD), I would 
have preferred to see development in a branch.  It's certainly not 
the clear-cut "no need for a branch" situation that you seem to 
think.

--apb (Alan Barrett)