Beta 2 tagging delay

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Thursday 29 September 2011 Sep, Cyrille Berger Skott wrote:
> On Thursday 29 September 2011, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > On Thursday 29 September 2011 Sep, Cyrille Berger Skott wrote:
> > > On Thursday 29 September 2011, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 29 September 2011 Sep, Cyrille Berger Skott wrote:
> > > > > I am rather convince that our current model (or the one we aim at, ie
> > > > > master in a releasable state at all time), but it does require people
> > > > > to accept that their latest newest shiny super cool feature is less
> > > > > important than shipping a finished product to our users, and
> > > > > therefor merge things that are reasonnably ready, for which the
> > > > > developers don't know of any major bugs. Maybe we should have a long
> > > > > discussion on the development workflow at the next sprint.
> > > > 
> > > > It also means that we need to setup the system of branches we have
> > > > discussed before a couple of times already. We don't have that now,
> > > > with the result that we are still working as if in svn.
> > > 
> > > Huh ? That is not true, we do work with branches.
> > 
> > Yes, it is true. All branches related to the release process are missing.
> Name the branch ? Because apart of the branch I have named, none are missing.

Yes, we have a branch called "master", just like we used to have a branch called "trunk". We don't have any other branch that is related to the release process. We only have feature branches.

But let it go, this discussion isn't productive at all.

> > There's no staging branch where people can easily track all branches in one
> > go, and that is the reason that the branches do not get sufficient testing
> > before merging into master.
> 
> The problem of the staging branch is that noone has step forward to do the 
> work on proposing a workflow (it is not as simple as doing "git checkout -b 
> staging" and telling people they can merge all kind of branches in there.

So it isn't there, and that's why we have this current problem, for which we asked for a delay in tagging. I will not have time to work on the solution until Saturday, sorry for that.


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Boudewijn Rempt
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