I totally agree that we should have some staging tree for this purpose. But I would prefer deploying gerrit on this rather than using github. Also, using gerrit would make it possible to host our own Jenkins instance for testing, rather than depends on TravisCI which is very limited and shared across all the apache projects as I heard.
I also notice that before 4.5 cut Daan merge a large refactor of VR. I thought it's feature freeze now? --Sheng On Oct 16, 2014 7:14 AM, "Giles Sirett" <giles.sir...@shapeblue.com> wrote: > +1 to Sebastians proposal > > > Kind Regards > Giles > > D: +44 20 3603 0541 | M: +44 796 111 2055 > giles.sir...@shapeblue.com > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rohit Yadav [mailto:rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com] > Sent: 16 October 2014 11:58 > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: merging versus cherry-picking > > Hi, > > On 16-Oct-2014, at 3:32 pm, sebgoa <run...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Proposal: > > ---- > > All commits come through github PR, *even* for committers. We declare a > moratorium period (agreed suspension of activity) during which direct > commit to master is forbidden. > > Only the master RM is allowed to merge PR in master (we define a master > RM). If direct commit to master is done, master RM reverts without warning. > Same for 4.5 and 4.4. branches. > > —— > > +1 > > We get the free TravisCI smoke checks and personally I find it more > pleasant to view the diff, review on PR. > > > This is drastic and I am sure some folks will not like it, but here is > my justification for such a measure: > > > > Our commit and release processes have so far been based on the idea that > development happens on master and that a release branch is cut from master > (unstable development branch). Then a different set of community members > harden the release branch, QA and bring it to GA level. During that time > development keeps on going in master. > > > > This is an OK process if we have the luxury of having a QA team and can > cope with split personality of being developers and release managers. > > > > My point of view is that as a community we cannot afford such a split > brain organization and our experience overt the last year proves my point > (delayed release date, broken builds, features merged without warning…) > > > > We can avoid this by cutting a release branch from a stable one (from > the start), then as you (Daan) have mentioned several times, fix bugs in > the release branch and merge them back in the stable source of the release > (be it master). > > > > Feature development need to be done outside master, period. Not only for > non-committers but also for committers. And merge request need to be > called. This will help review and avoid surprises. > > > > New git workflow were proposed and shutdown, mostly calling for better > CI to solve quality issues. CI will not solve our quality issues alone. We > need to better police ourselves. > > > > To avoid long discussions, I propose this simple but drastic measure. 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