Hi Rich, Thanks for your explanation. Branching in git is extremely fast and lightweight, which makes it excellent for feature developing without disrupting anything :) I wondered why the changes weren't applied onto the rsalz-monolith branch in the official repository, since that branch already exists there. A big advantage of having everything in the same official repo is that developers who forked the repo can merge and/or cherry-pick changes onto their own branches. Having to work with multiple upstream repositories is, err, less-than-optimal and error-prone.
Would it be an idea to create branches in the official repo for (certain classes of) bugfixes, which can be merged onto the respective branches at set times ? For instance one for documentation fixes ? You could merge these bugfix branches then also to onto your rsalz-monolith branch, which would keep the repository nice and orderly. Branches having lots of different commit types (features, bugfixes, enhancements, changes) can diverge so much from the official branches that it will get harder and harder for others to merge them onto forks or other diverged branches without running into issues. A codebase as large and as complex as openssl makes it already prone to versioning errors (eg. fixes implemented in branch X but not in branch Y). I'm eagerly awaiting the 'move' of your forked repo branch to the official repository... I'd say the more branches in the official repo the better! Peter Mosmans On 26-08-2014 23:13, Salz, Rich wrote: > > Think of this as pre-release software. The changes are too large to > disrupt the 1.0.2 release, which is already in beta. > > > > We haven’t yet figured out how to make early-access to branches > available, so for now I just did it via Akamai. At some point, I’d > expect that branch to “move” over to openssl’s repo, but we’re not > there yet. > > > > Make sense? > > > > /r$ > > > > -- > > Principal Security Engineer > > Akamai Technologies, Cambridge MA > > IM: rs...@jabber.me <mailto:rs...@jabber.me> Twitter: RichSalz >
