Next focus: PROCESS

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-12-11 00:41, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>
> Walter and I have had a long discussion following his trip to Australia.
> Following the current sprint for Win64 (which we all, I think, agree was
> long overdue and had to be done), the main area we need to work on (as
> I'm sure many would agree) is improving our process, in particular the
> approach to releasing the compiler and standard library.
>
> Walter has delegated me to lead this effort, and agreed to obey with
> whatever process comes forward as long as it's reasonably clear and simple.
>
> In turn, I'll be collecting thoughts and opinions in this thread,
> distilled from previous discussions. We should develop a few simple git
> scripts (such as git-start-new-feature or git-start-bugfix etc)
> supported by an equally simple piece of documentation describing how to
> start a new release, fix a bug, experiment with a new feature, and such.
>
> (One piece that has been brought forward is
> http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ - something to
> keep in mind.)

Don't know if this has already been said but there already exists a git 
command for this workflow:

https://github.com/nvie/gitflow

It's available in MacPorts so I should assume it's available in most 
Linux package mangers as well.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg