Transitioning to the new Release Process

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Thu Jan 10 07:51:16 PST 2013


On 1/10/13 4:42 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> Am Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:28:51 +0100
> schrieb "mist"<none at none.none>:
>
>> Sounds like different people have different understanding of
>> staging concept here and each one is doing minor tweaks to own
>> direction. I ran through updated wiki and some stuff like "pull
>> requests against staging" just scares me a lot. Someone really
>> needs to step up and take this under control.
>
> The wiki page needed to be updated though as a lot of the workflow
> wasn't explained. I asked many times if all contributors of the
> original wiki page are satisfied with the changes as I did not intend
> to change the concept.
>
> If you don't want bug fixes to go into staging where should they be
> merged to then? If we merge them into master, staging won't receive any
> development in between releases? Or do you propose to merge master into
> staging more often? If so, then what's the criteria to merge from
> staging to master?

My understanding was that staging is worked on only during the (short) 
time span from initiating a new release and finalizing that release.

Andrei


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