[Building Sakai] KNL-257 (Basic Auth) merging to 2.6.x (Kernel 1.0.x)

[Maurer, Christopher Wayne]

We run a custom local kernel at IU.

Chris

On Dec 9, 2009, at 8:45 AM, Stephen Marquard wrote:

> I agree with this - I think code cleanup fixes should not in general get merged to maintenance branches, unless they end up being dependencies for other merges that are for actual bugfixes.
> 
> I'm also curious to find out how many other 2-6-x sites are running custom local kernels? 
> 
> Regards
> Stephen
> 
>>>> Matthew Buckett <matthew.buckett at oucs.ox.ac.uk> 2009/12/09 03:40 PM >>>
> Some of the basic auth (base64 related) tickets in the kernel look
> like they might be merged to 2.6.x (Kernel 1.0.x):
> 
> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-270 
> Subtasked into:
>  http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-257 
>  http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-271 
>  http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-272 
> 
> While I think it's a good thing that this issue has been addressed I
> wouldn't class it as a bug and don't see that it need to be merged
> into the 1.0.x kernel.
> 
> The reason I'm bringing this up is that we have some patches to the
> kernel and so maintain our own local version of it and the more
> patches that are pushed back to the 1.0.x branch the more stuff we
> have to merge.
> 
> Our longterm aim is not to have a custom local kernel but sadly we're
> not there yet.
> 
> -- 
>  Matthew Buckett
>  VLE Developer, LTG, Oxford University Computing Services
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