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I think timestamp is the way to go. File name conflict shouldn't be the way
we prevent ourselves from doing stupid things. If someone merge props a
change with a migration, it's the job of both the developer and the core
reviewers to make sure something horrible isn't happening in the database as
a result.

-tr3buchet

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Brian Schott <bfschott at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was getting migrate errors because gaps are not allowed in the migration
> numbers.  Maybe this could be changed so that folks could use arbitrarily
> large numbers in their branches until ready to propose for merge.    That
> would help minimize conflicts and manual bzr rename on our local branches
> when merging from trunk.
>
> The reservation numbers need to be monotonically increasing at trunk merge
> because suppose migration 12 gets reserved but doesn't submit any code
> changes, then migration 13 comes in and gets approved and merged, then
> migration 12 merges code and breaks migration 13.  You can't revert back to
> migration 11 because the new migration 12 is in the way.
>
> Brian Schott
> bfschott at gmail.com
>
>
>
> On Jun 1, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Ed Leafe wrote:
>
> >       Another option is to have a migration reservation page in the wiki.
> It would contain a table with a sequence of numbers in the first column, and
> a blank cell in the right column. When you need to add a migration, fill
> your branch name next to the first available number, and that number's
> yours. If there's a conflict, it will be clear who needs to change their
> number.
> >
> >       It's a manual process, sure, but this isn't a process that's
> repeated all that often.
> >
> >
> >
> > -- Ed Leafe
> >
> >
> >
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