[SSSD] RFC: Backporting Nikolai's DEBUG patches to sssd-1-11

Sumit Bose sbose at redhat.com
Tue Apr 29 13:53:37 UTC 2014


On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 03:45:36PM +0200, Pavel Březina wrote:
> On 04/29/2014 03:24 PM, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >we've been keeping the sssd-1-11 branch fairly conservative recently,
> >mostly as a precaution to not break downstreams that consume sssd-1-11,
> >like RHEL.
> >
> >But some relatively larger features, such as the InfoPipe responder,
> >need to be backported to sssd-1-11 (and by extension to RHEL-6) now. One
> >large difference between master and sssd-1-11 are the DEBUG messages and
> >I'd like to propose that we backport the new DEBUG messages to sssd-1-11
> >and mass-convert the callers the same way we did in master.
> >
> >I think backporting the DEBUG messages change would be relatively
> >low-risk, as the messages don't generally affect the behaviour of the
> >daemon.
> >
> >The big downside of course is that we break git-blame and cause a bit of
> >churn in sssd-1-11. But I think this downside it outweighted by not
> >having to backport each and every DEBUG message from patches we'll be
> >pulling in from master to sssd-1-11, which is all the SBUS changes Stef
> >did recently and also all the work on the IFP responder.
> >
> >The next step would be backporting the SBUS changes, but I'd prefer a
> >separate thread about those.
> >
> >Thoughts?
> 
> +1

+1

bye,
Sumit

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