On Thursday, 20 December 2012 at 23:43:12 UTC, Joseph Cassman
wrote:
On Wednesday, 19 December 2012 at 21:30:44 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
I agree with one "stable" branch.
Andrei
Just some food for thought.
In the section about the "Branching model", the wiki currently
has a staging branch in addition to the master branch. From
what I understand, the idea seems to be to vet a release on
staging until it is considered production level and then marked
as the release.
Another idea could be to keep the quality of the master branch
at a high level so as to be able to branch into a release at
any time, directly from master. Before feature branches are
merged back into master, their quality is vetted so the quality
of master is maintained.
I prefer this one. It's simpler, less to memorize. Staging area
complicates things. I propose to go for a yearly release of the
stable branches with one year support (In the beginning). So
development needs to be of super high quality once a year.
This idea seems similar to what is used for the vibe.d project
(http://vibed.org/temp/branch-model-small.png). My apologies if
I misunderstood their process.
It looks like Xamarin has been using this process for a while
and it seems to be working for them.
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Oct-14.html
Joseph
