Re: [equinox-dev] New equinox framework adaptor

[Thomas Watson <tjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Ah, now I understand this in more detail. Thanks
a lot for your 
> explanation and sorry for still being somewhat unoriented regarding
the 
> code repository structures. Still a newbie in this area...
> 
> But that brings up another question (from the newbie ;-): I understand
> that there might be code differences between the incubator area and
the 
> HEAD. But is there any policy who/when/how to migrate changes from
HEAD 
> back into the incubator area?
> 
> Thanks for the help!!!
> -Martin

No problem, I'm sure others on this list have the
same questions.  In the
past when the incubator is active we have tried to
update (or merge) the 
code from HEAD into the incubator after each Milestone
is released 
from eclipse proper.

Sometimes this can be a time consuming task if there
are many components.
In the past each incubator usually had a small set
of bundles that they 
were modifying.  For example, investigating improvements
to the OSGi 
Framework only involves the org.eclipse.osgi project.

As more incubators get started I'm not sure what the
best approach is to 
merge the latest code back to the incubator.  I
hope each incubator can 
have a "lead" which can be responsible for
merging the latest code into 
their corresponding incubator projects.  I think
the contributors of each
incubator will have to be responsible for this merge
because they are the
only ones that know what changes they have made and
how best to merge any
new code from HEAD into their incubators.

Thoughts?

Tom.