Pull freeze

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 7/29/12 7:43 AM, Robert Clipsham wrote:
> On Sunday, 29 July 2012 at 06:08:18 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Due to the upcoming release, there will be no regular pull
>> walk-through tomorrow. Thanks for the growing rate of contribution,
>> and let's resume the ritual next Sunday.
>>
>> Andrei
>
> I really can't shake the feeling that you guys just don't get git!
>
> You never need to freeze pulls with git. Ever! It just slows down
> development.
>
> The work flow is simple enough:
>
> 1. Time for a release
> 2. Create a release branch, it is feature frozen
> 3. You can keep pulling feature into master, no problem
> 4. You can pull regression/bug fixes into the release branch
> 5. A release is made, merge the release branch into master and continue.
>
> I don't know why I bothered typing this out - the discussion has been
> had time and time again with no progress made.

I'm all for it. We're just too busy most of the time to stop and improve 
our process. I think it's a good opportunity to do so right after 2.060.


Thanks,

Andrei