Branching 1.5

[Eric Richie]

On Sep 6, 2011, at 9:42 PM, David Smith wrote:

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> On Sep 6, 2011, at 6:26 PM, Stephen Holt <sholt at adium.im> wrote:
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>> On Sep 6, 2011, at 6:18 PM, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. wrote:
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>>> On Sep 6, 2011, at 7:01 PM, David Smith wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> -Evan
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>> As for testing, this is why we're trying to set up nightly builds for n-branches. 
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> Test build *availability* is not the problem with branches. It's that you have to pick which single feature you're going to live on. If people really merge early, ok... but that defeats the stability goal.
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>     David




My rationale was that, since we haven't worked out the details of a new release process, we should continue on as usual until such time.


That said, this is probably a good opportunity to bring the topic up again…

For those who weren't at the meeting last week (or need a refresher), take a look at some of the discussion. [http://trac.adium.im/attachment/wiki/AdiumMeetings/2011-08-30/Adium%20meeting%20log%20August%2030%2C%202010.txt starting at line 120]


Thoughts? Counter-suggestions? Hurtful words about my mother?

-Eric

(Yes, I'm linking to the log because I don't feel like typing it all out again right now…)
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