Re: branches_of_interest.txt

On 2018-07-01 11:41:07 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> > This file on the buildfarm server is used to tell clients which branches 
> > we'd like built. When a new stable branch is created it's added manually 
> > to this file, and when one gets to EOL it's removed from the file. This 
> > is a rather cumbersome process, and it occurred to me that it could be 
> > streamlined by our keeping it in the core repo instead.
> 
> I can see the value of people other than you being able to change it,
> but keeping it in the core repo seems like a kluge not a proper solution.
> In particular, once it'd been around for awhile so that the master copy
> had diverged from the back branches' copies, that would be pretty
> confusing IMO.

FWIW, I've a manually maintained version of this in the scripts I use to
commit / backpatch things.  I'd appreciate not having to manually
maintain it, and be afraid to forget updating it ;)

FWIW, I don't really see the problem of maintaining it in-tree, it has
the advantage of guaranteeing the set of known-to-be-maintained branches
is guaranteed to be current.

Greetings,

Andres Freund