Next focus: PROCESS

deadalnix deadalnix at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 12:51:56 PST 2012


On Wednesday, 19 December 2012 at 19:56:47 UTC, Rob T wrote:
> On Wednesday, 19 December 2012 at 19:26:48 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 19 December 2012 at 19:01:56 UTC, Andrei 
>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> I was hoping for more consensus to build in this thread. 
>>> Right now it seems there's still quite a bit of controversy 
>>> about what the best way to go is.
>>>
>>
>> I'm afraid a lot of discussions we see right now are plain 
>> useless because overengineered. This shouldn't prevent us from 
>> switching some more basics things, like the git workflow and 
>> see how it work.
>>
>> This process need some actual practical use for the reflection 
>> to go forward, as it has gone way too far in the stratosphere.
>
> Yes, overengineering is pointless, and doing something basic is 
> better than doing nothing at all, and knowing what will work 
> and what won't and what the challenges are means that we have 
> to try something out or we'll never learn anything.
>
> There are some main points that I think everyone agrees with 
> that could be implemented immediately.
>
> Do we all agree that MASTER becomes the "Dev" branch?
>

Yes

> Do we all agree that we need a "testing" (aka staging) branch?
>

Yes

> Do we all agree that we need a "stable" branch?
>

No. Stable isn't a boolean criteria. You'll find different degree 
of stability going from not so stable (dev version) to very 
stable (dead project).

The wiki already mention a process with a branch per version of 
the software.


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