-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/18/2014 11:00 AM, sebgoa wrote: > After [1] I would like to officially bring up the following > proposal. > > [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. ---- > > This is drastic and I am sure some folks will not like it, but here > is my justification for such a measure: >
I fully understand the reasoning and I agree that this is the best way forward. Code quality is much more needed then new features. Revert without warning is also just fine. It will take some time to adjust, but this would be a great thing to do. Wido > [Reasons]: ---- 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. We move all our commits to github PR until 4.5 is out, > this stands for committers and non-committers, direct commits > (especially to master) would be reverted immediately. ---- > > Our development and release process is broken, we cannot continue > like this, let's fix it. > > [1] http://markmail.org/thread/xeliefp3oleq3g54 > > -sebastien > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUROXIAAoJEAGbWC3bPspCifwP/1NtM7L61p8YI/W4qn9LH+fs oo5PeLY61IitdDGJoT7DTfiJhCgM4HWYHKyZOUkZLm53wUKbrUuzSVZ6ZIfrlss6 erWIXCHrk2VPzaBX3nyOBzaEdrnLYTlMdJgxHVd5IUq+HBtf3GPQDUHu3EnsNKk4 BP+3fJg5hfIF4jkevXlGebcdsT9CWQIz3Z656Dr1tknYUBlTyM+wBOsp3BhAEWG0 VTC9Gt/YfOo3P3xWEBUZ40GRhd4bM9OaHhiDqN/vz4wKyz7X2//oShudVSTZsrg9 Hm2CYt9W1/TjLEAk87VBvtNyY4U9OaZTnQBK/T+N7uu7E8whFmqffDDWYiSmBt+J UDsYQfn/U/aKqgyMasXRWTF8CxZHRM8YyZzwbrMhVYUPdlsnhUdmzksG7zKwcNjp rpXcS3LkXW6xp0sYp6MWdUp7EVhpDE7q06HiWDONrrKRdyKTxO9P+tWWUJJdVee/ zwb617SIFyDYK9DBKSDSGIdAFE81rl+PBTqPJe2wotJ5KKuRbcVWaqFqvWqmuLxs XiMiB3CduBbLecmyEqa0szQqv9OXRHeNGvrjEM29L7kYSb6Rua05jmTwFXEj+1Ob IxF9wOB/licwfCOE8VSNz8xbiptbtloKhT4OFyliFW/RAuBwQlznus8A9xGVgYz1 gCnEIljSR6Tle3F9kvU7 =MHeW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
