Branching 1.5

[Colin Barrett]

On Sep 6, 2011, at 6:26 PM, Stephen Holt 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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> +1
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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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> I think a great goal would be to have trunk releasable at any arbitrary time, provided a period for localization and beta testing.

FWIW this is totally doable right now -- have to edit a single file. It's on my to do list to move that stuff in to a more easily accessed location. I'll commit to taking care of it this week or weekend sometime. (For real.)
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