RFC: develop feature branches in main repo

[Bart Cerneels]

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 16:50, Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu> wrote:
> I know some people are still using Gitorious repos and such for the
> ongoing work. However recently everyone has been granted the right to
> create branches on our git.kde.org/amarok.git repo.
>
> I think it would raise the visibility of feature branches if everyone
> just pushed them to the main repo. This would make things a bit
> 'messy', but I don't really think its a big problem. We could have a
> spring cleaning and move all the old branches into amarok-history if
> it becomes an issue.
>
> I do suggest that branches be named YYYYMMDD-description.
>
> Ian

Regardless of name (which is to trivial to keep discussing) I suggest
to require the creation/push of a new branch is announced on this
mailing list. This keeps a log in a public archive with the reason for
the branch, a place to discuss and to get more contributors.

Bart