On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Mark Miller <markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 to option 2 - I like feature branches more than than an issue/patch
> branch approach - large features often span many issues/patches.
>
> Option 2 can also really be a superset of option 1.

+1 to option 2 - I guess we should start with more feature branches
and see if that makes things easier.

I agree with mark this can be a superset of option 1

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> On Jun 10, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Michael Busch <busch...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi All,
>>
>> When working on large patches, such as LUCENE-2324, I find it always
>> troublesome to use patch files only to track progress.  Since branching in
>> svn works fine now (since 1.5) I'd like to create a branch for 2324.  The
>> big advantage is that everyone can track progress much more easily because
>> we get a full history on that branch.  And people who commit patches to
>> trunk can help merging, because it's sometimes very difficult if you haven't
>> followed that other change closely.
>>
>> I talked about this with Robert, Uwe and Simon in Berlin, and they all
>> like this proposal.
>>
>> So two different approaches come to my mind:
>> 1) branches/patches/LUCENE-2324/
>> 2) branches/lucene-realtime/
>>
>>
>> 1) We would have a dedicated place for branches that are used for
>> individual patches.  Every committer who thinks it makes sense for a certain
>> patch to create a branch can do in the branches/patches location.
>>
>> 2) Like with flexible indexing we create a branch for bigger features.
>>  E.g. for realtime search there are several open issues in JIRA and we could
>> just use this single branch for all of them until we're ready to merge a
>> stable realtime version to trunk.
>>
>> I like both 1) and 2) and don't have a strong preference.  What do others
>> think?
>>
>> Michael
>>
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