That will also work but master is not needed for released versions. Releases are tags and typically used through the Maven dependencies.
People coming to github are typically contributors and they should see the latest stable code. When we merge changes into devel-3, they have been reviewed and tested, we cut the release branches from devel-3. This is what should be visible by default. Once we do major changes, we will need to do those on another branch. Making changes for next major release 4.x is one such branch in my mind. Thomas On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Sandesh Hegde <[email protected]> wrote: > How about we just keep "devel"? and master continues to be released > version. > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 4:55 PM Vlad Rozov <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > If I remember correctly the idea behind using master and devel-3/devel-4 > > was to use devel-3 and devel-4 for trunks on 3.x and 4.x and use master > > as the latest released version. > > > > I am not proposing to use master one way or another, just stating my > > understanding behind the current configuration of the Apex core and > > malhar branches. > > > > Thank you, > > > > Vlad > > > > On 1/21/16 15:18, Thomas Weise wrote: > > > It my be possible but I would question why. The master branch does not > > > serve any other purpose, so why not use it for development? > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Vlad Rozov <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > >> I guess not, I think that we don't have admin rights to manage apex > core > > >> or malhar mirrors on github. > > >> > > >> Thank you, > > >> > > >> Vlad > > >> > > >> > > >> On 1/21/16 14:12, Pramod Immaneni wrote: > > >> > > >>> Can't we set a default branch in the repo to be different from > master? > > >>> > > >>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 2:04 PM, David Yan <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > >>> > > >>> Hi all, > > >>>> We have been using the devel-3 branch for development in both Apex > > Core > > >>>> and > > >>>> Apex Malhar. The reason was that we wanted to have the master > branch > > to > > >>>> point to the latest release so that when a user checks out from our > > git > > >>>> repo, it's always the latest source release and it always works. > > >>>> > > >>>> But on the other hand, from what I see, that is not what most active > > >>>> apache > > >>>> projects do. I checked Flink, Spark, Storm, Samza, Pig, Hive, and > > >>>> Hadoop, > > >>>> and ALL of these projects have commits on the master branch that are > > at > > >>>> most one day old. Apex Core on the other hand, the last commit on > the > > >>>> master branch was Nov, 2015, and that was when we released Apex Core > > >>>> 3.2.0. > > >>>> > > >>>> Because of our stale master branch, it's easy for someone outside of > > the > > >>>> Apex community to conclude that Apex is not very active compared to > > other > > >>>> Apache projects. > > >>>> > > >>>> To me, the benefits of using the devel-3 branch are simply not worth > > the > > >>>> potential cost. I would like to propose that we get rid of the > > devel-3 > > >>>> branch and use the master branch for development, instead of having > > the > > >>>> master branch always reflecting the latest release. We use tags for > > that > > >>>> purpose. > > >>>> > > >>>> Please share your thoughts. > > >>>> > > >>>> Thanks! > > >>>> > > >>>> David > > >>>> > > >>>> > > > > >
