Hi, anonym and I are deep in a much needed process of reorganizing how we work together.
As part of this, we are starting an experiment: anonym will now feel free to push directly to our base branches (stable, testing and devel) changes that affect only our automated test suite. He will "own" this part of our Git tree and be responsible for any regression he introduces. anonym will only push minor robustness improvements to the stable branch though, so that we take extremely little risk of finding that branch in a worse state than during the previous release process, in case we have to put out an emergency release. I will review all these changes in batch about a week before the freeze (for major releases) / before the release (for bugfix releases), so there's time to fix or revert them if needed. Regarding how we track test suite issues on Redmine: in the last 2 years we've accumulated dozens of byte-size tickets. They're all technically valid (I think) but this super-fine-grained approach does not really work for anonym currently, e.g. the mere number of tickets feels overwhelming, the little value brought by fixing one such ticket is not motivating; more generally this fine-grained approach is better suited for a project that's working well except a few issues, which is not exactly the current state of our test suite: it has some fundamental problems that often requires zooming-out and approaching things more radically. So, for a while anonym will mostly ignore all these tiny tickets and will try to find a different level of granularity that helps him better organize his work. I can't overstate it: this is an experiment. We will monitor closely how it goes, if it brings us the benefits we are looking for, if the issues it creates are worth it. We can, and probably will, adjust the rules & processes as we go. If you are affected by this new process in any way, we will want to hear your feedback (the earlier and the more honest, the better :) Cheers, -- intrigeri _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.