Hi Andrea, I don't think this workflow would currently work for us. The reason is that we're letting bugs sit for too long before we get to them. I bet you can still find bugs filed against DSpace 1.5 that were never fixed. Even patches tend to sit for a long time before we review them. As I see it, it would happen quite often that a PR would be filed today against the 1_8_x branch. When we finally resolve it in 2 years (unfortunately, this is really not uncommon for us), that branch will be long unsupported and the oldest supported branch in that time will be 4_x. That will require one more task. So much for the disadvantages.
As for advantages, I don't really see any. There's not really a difference in porting effort in one direction or the other (e.g. 3->4 vs. 4->3). As a developer, you're probably already working on a branch close to master, so it's easier for you to just fix things in the current DSpace version than check out an older one, fix it there and build it; no advantage there, either. Moreover, we declared the last 3 releases supported for security bug fixes. We didn't say anything about bug fix support. After a new major version is released, it's very rare for us to release a minor version of the previous release. There's a lot we would have to improve in our processes (time to fix bugs, actual support for previous releases) before we could consider this change in Git workflow. Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Dspace-devel mailing list Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
