Branching 1.5

Stephen Holt sholt at adium.im
Wed Sep 7 01:26:58 UTC 2011


On Sep 6, 2011, at 6:18 PM, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. wrote:

> 
> On Sep 6, 2011, at 7:01 PM, David Smith wrote:
> 
>> I disagree. The concept of "trunk" focuses testing a lot. I know when
>> we had a few feature branches going I immediately set up my own branch
>> that I merged them all to so I could test more than one thing at once.
> 
> Branch early, merge early may be a fine approach.  I'm just unclear what advantage branching 1.5 (and, as a result, making trunk 1.6hg) would have at this time.
> 
> -Evan


+1

As for testing, this is why we're trying to set up nightly builds for n-branches.

I think a great goal would be to have trunk releasable at any arbitrary time, provided a period for localization and beta testing.
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