[kata-dev] Branch name changes on kata-containers/kata-containers and kata-containers/tests repos

Ariel Adam aadam at redhat.com
Fri Jan 22 13:32:37 UTC 2021


Kudos to Fabiano and Peng Tao for leading this to completion :-).

Thanks.


On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 2:49 PM Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano at fidencio.org>
wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 12:14 PM Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano at fidencio.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > Kata Folks,
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 8:29 AM Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano at fidencio.org>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Kata Folks,
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 9:49 AM Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano at fidencio.org>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Kata Folks,
> > > >
> > > > During the last Architecture Committee meeting it's been decided that
> > > > we'd do the following branch name changes:
> > > > * kata-containers/kata-containers:
> > > >   - "2.0-dev" will be renamed to "main";
> > > >   - "stable-2.0.0" will be renamed to "stable-2.0"l
> > > > * kata-containers/tests;
> > > >   - "2.0-dev" will be renamed to "main";
> > > >   - "stable-2.0.0" will be renamed to "stable-2.0"l
> > > >
> > > > In order to do such changes we'll have to avoid merging patches for a
> > > > few hours, if not a whole day (in the worst case scenario), so we can
> > > > get our CI working against the now renamed branches.
> > > >
> > > > We understand it'll cause disruptions not only for the time window
> > > > where we won't merge any pull-request, but mainly for the fact that
> > > > pull-requests previously opened against "2.0-dev" branches will have
> > > > to be reopened, this time against "main", and we apologize in
> advance.
> > > >
> > > > Our original plan is to take Tomorrow (January 22nd, 2020) to do the
> > > > switch. In case there are any concerns from any member of the
> > > > community, please, let us know replying to this email.
> > > >
> > > > If we get no reply with concerns by Tomorrow we'll go ahead and
> > > > proceed with the change.
> > > >
> > > > Best Regards,
> > > > --
> > > > Fabiano Fidêncio
> > >
> > > Peng Tao and I started working on this less than one hours ago, we've
> > > commented on all the PRs that will need to be re-opened against `main`
> > > or `stable-2.0` about the disruption, we've added `do-not-merge` and
> > > `needs-branch-adjustment` labels on them, and we'll comment on them
> > > again once this switch is over. You also will receive another email
> > > from me once we're done with the switch.
> > >
> > > Sorry for the disruption and thanks for understanding the situation!
> >
> > The default branches for both `kata-containers/kata-containers` and
> > `kata-containers/tests` repos have been changed to `main` instead of
> > `2.0-dev`, and together with this change `stable-2.0.0` has been
> > renamed to `stable-2.0`.
>
> A small correction here: `stable-2.0.0` branch was deleted and a new
> `stable-2.0` has been created.
> The reasoning for that is that only "default" branches can be renamed
> and we decided to avoid the shenanigans of setting "stable-2.0.0" to
> default, rename it, and set "main" back to the default.
>
> With this, 2 opened PRs have been affected and we've already contacted
> the submitters asking them to re-open the PR against the `stable-2.0`
> branch.
>
> > Theoretically all the CIs are working, and if you face any issue,
> > please, contact us either through this mailing list or on Kata
> > Containers Slack (bit.ly/katacontainersslack),
> >
> > Absolutely **no** changes will be needed for the PRs who were opened
> > against the `2.0-dev` branch! I'll be going through the PRs, doing a
> > second round of comments during the rest of the afternoon, just to be
> > sure everyone gets notified about this.
> >
> > Thanks for your patience, and a special thanks to Peng Tao for helping
> > with the process!
>
> Another thing we'd like to mention is that if you have a local clone
> of the repo, you can update it by running:
> ```
> git branch -m 2.0-dev main
> git fetch origin
> git branch -u origin/main main
> ```
>
> And those instructions are also being displayed in the repos.
>
> Best Regards,
> --
> Fabiano Fidêncio
>
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