Let's also take this into a new thread. There are a lot of different
conversations now going on....
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
<bjor...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:08 PM, C. Scott Ananian
> <canan...@wikimedia.org>wrote:
>
>> I agree. I think a better technical solution would be to halt jenkins'
>> auto-merge for the 24 hour period, so that +2'ed changes are not
>> automatically merged until after the branch is cut.
>
>
> I don't see how that's any better. Things still aren't getting merged.
>
> If anything, the "cut using master@{24 hours ago}" is a much better
> idea.[1] Although it might be useful to see if Wednesday tends to be a
> relatively active bug-fixing day as the community on non-Wikipedia sites
> finds issues in the version that was deployed to them on Tuesday, in which
> case keeping those from making it into the new cut on Thursday (and so
> requiring more backports or waiting an extra week for fixes) might not be
> so great.
>
>
> [1]: And yes, 'master@{24 hours ago}' is valid git syntax.
>
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