On 6/2/2017 6:45 AM, Adrien Grand wrote: > Hi Anshum, will you branch both branch_7x and branch_7_0 at the same > time? I think this is what we need to do but I'm asking in case you > had planned differently.
It seems like a better idea to create only branch_7x right now, and delay creating the 7_0 branch until we're ready to declare a feature freeze, after which new stuff would be slated for 7.1. For the two major releases I've witnessed, it took quite a while to go from trunk/master to new release. Most work for that preparation will already require committing to both master and 7x, with some changes only happening in one branch. If we create the 7_0 branch now, a lot of work over a fairly long timeframe will need to be applied to three branches instead of two. Backporting twice isn't difficult, but it is an extra step that could easily be forgotten, causing unwanted divergence between branches. Usually the amount of time we need to worry about three branches is only a few days and doesn't involve very many commits. I don't think we want that situation for as long as it would take to get from master to 7.0. Thanks, Shawn --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
