Transitioning to the new Release Process

[mist]

Short comment about cherry pick - it is only bad in sense that it
creates separate untrackable commit with same content, which may
easily result in merging issues. If there is only one-way
direction for commit transitioning ( stuff goes from master to
staging and LTS and never goes back ) there is nothing inherently
bad about cherry pick.

On topic: well, it was somewhat discussed in the very first
thread. One pure technical issue is that github choses master as
default target for pull requests and people gonna do it wrong by
a simple mistake rather often. Much more important point is that
it complicates development process for newcomers without any
reasonable benefit. And if we still gonna push for success as an
open-source project, being easy understandable by an outsider is
as important as a clear release process.

Come on, I am reading all new posts in D and D.announce almost
every day (for 2+ years), check most of github pull requests for
druntime and phobos on weekly basis and still have a hard day
figuring out how some stuff is supposed to be done regarding
process and intentions. Imagine some random guy who just fixed
some stuff for his project and now he is full of altruistic
intentions to provide this fix/feature to an upstream. We have
current scenario A - fork repo on github, do stuff, push "pull
request" button. And now scenario B is proposed - go to wiki,
read release process guidelines, chose branch to fork from, do
not forget to chose the same branch when doing pull request
shortly after. Minor details regarding people comfort matter a
lot when they are supposed to work for free.

On Thursday, 10 January 2013 at 15:47:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
> On 1/10/13 1:28 AM, mist wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Why is that scary?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei