BIRD multithreaded progress

[Maria Matejka]

Hello!

Off-topic: How I made up the branch names. Nothing to actual multithreading.

On 1/27/22 1:13 PM, Blažej Krajňák wrote:
> st 26. 1. 2022 o 22:38 Douglas Fischer <fischerdouglas at gmail.com> napísal(a):
>>
>> Another silly question:
>>
>> Sark, Alderney... Islands? Why?
> 
> "The development is now being done mostly in the branch alderney. If
> you asked why such strange branch names like jersey, guernsey and
> alderney, here is a kind-of reason. Yes, these branches could be named
> mq-async-export, mq-async-export-new, mq-async-export-new-new,
> mq-another-async-export and so on. That’s so ugly, isn’t it? Let’s be
> creative. Jersey is an island where a same-named knit was first
> produced – and knits are made of threads. Then, you just look into a
> map and find nearby islands."
> 
> https://en.blog.nic.cz/2021/06/14/bird-journey-to-threads-chapter-2-asynchronous-route-export/

To elaborate more on that, there are several people around me doing 
sewing and other textile work. We communicate quite often as I'm the 
person who does the geometry thing for them occasionally, and when I was 
starting the multithreaded project, there was jersey fabric just 
everywhere around.

The multithreading project is full of dead ends. There is an ugly lot of 
corner cases where priority inversion happens and I went to several of 
these dead ends where I found out that something has to be done _before_ 
the actual goal is attempted but the old branch was to be kept to rebase 
and cherry-pick the _following_ work onto the new branch.

And here comes my love for geography and word play. When the Jersey 
branch got to a dead end, I just picked Guernsey. Then I reached another 
dead end on Guernsey ...

It should be noted that these branches got rebased a lot, even the 
public branches are quite a mess. (You don't want to see my local 
repository.)

BTW, after the COVID thing gets less dangerous, hopefully, I'd like to 
visit the Channel Islands for a short holiday ... and take a photo of 
some birds there, of course. And the trains ... hey, there are railroads 
there! Needa see them as well, no doubt.

(Well, you see, I'm a bit crazy.)

Maria