I'd be happy to volunteer to help out for the more recent LTS branch, I just wont be able to find the time to help with a 4.7.x.

I completely understand the desire to have the older branch its just too far away from what I want to use in the future and my work is absorbing a lot of my time currently.

In terms of management would it work to just have a couple of branches in the primary git repo?

I'm guessing Marc wouldn't want a whole load of random users having the ability to make a mess in HEAD but I believe github has the ability to restrict user access to particular branches so that might be one option to investigate?

James

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Gorges, Matthias <MGorges@cw.bc.ca> wrote:

Dear Marc,
> The maintainer's initial rôle would be to identify the version
> that seems the most appropriate (v4.7.?) and to create a git
> branch of that version. The most recent set of unit-tests
> should then be added to that branch.
This sounds like a great plan and I would be happy to help maintaining an older (e.g. 4.7.0-based) branch of Gambit. I would assume that you'd eventually host this branch in the official Gambit repository? We can provide a list of potential patches to it. Also by making this branch the default version in LambdaNative it will likely get a lot of use. However, I am not a compiler developer so there might be some limitations of what I can do with respect of troubleshooting problems with it.

For a start we (part-cw) could fork a 4.7.0 version and apply some patches against it to see what we'd like in a LTS version? It might be good to start an issue on Github as a central place to track the efforts needed to make this happen. Would you be happy with this?

> The maintainer could also manage a branch created from a recent
> version of Gambit.
I don't think we can do this as we still use 4.7.9 internally and are very uncomfortable to go there due to the 1000+ changes you mentioned, most of which are unrelated to the C-backend we use. Hence, someone else would need to step up for this 4.8.5-based LTS version. I did, however, file an issue against it to point out one potential difference I noticed.

Many Thanks,
Matthias

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