Request for a new vue3 branch in webui-vue

[Ed Tanous]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 2:40 PM Patrick Williams <patrick at stwcx.xyz> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 02:46:29PM -0600, Gunnar M wrote:
> > Kiran and his team have volunteered to sync patches merged to master to this new 'vue3' branch bi-weekly. Thank you, Kiran! When the migration to Vue 3 is complete, and all commits are synced over, this 'vue3' branch will become the 'master' branch.
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> We need to be careful about how we do this.  You don't want it to appear
> on github as a rewrite of the "master" branch and we absolutely need to
> at least keep the vue2 code in some branch so that it doesn't get pruned
> from the github history.  If we don't do this, it will become impossible
> for people to build older OpenBMC releases.
>
> I would suggest either:
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>     a. We do the opposite: create a 'vue2' branch and update the recipe
>        to point at it.
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>     b. We use this as an opportunity to migrate from 'master' to 'main'
>        and use 'main' as the vue3 branch.


My expectation was that this branch continues to rebase in patches,
and once ready to merge, we would just rebase the series on top of
master before pushing it so there's no discontinuity, no merge commit,
and autobump would just pick it up.

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> Patrick Williams