[phobos] Integration branches

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Sounds like a reasonable approach to me. Recent experience indicates 
that even if the pull request author tests on one platform, it can't be 
expected the code will work for all.

Brad?

Andrei

On 6/3/11 10:08 AM, Martin Nowak wrote:
> With the recent inflation of merging pull requests and reverting them I
> wonder if it would
> make sense to use integration branches.
>
> The proposed workflow would be.
>
> - merge pull request to integration branch of dmd/druntime/phobos, i.e.
> multiple merges
> are stashed into the same branch
> - if auto testing or something else fails revert merge and discuss
> follow ups on github
> - after everything is sorted out merge the complete pull request into
> master
> - from time to time the integration branch needs to be synced with master
> most likely when not too much pulls are merged into it
>
> That way pull requests can stay open until being functional and merged
> to master.
> The maintenance overhead should be fairly low.
> The auto tester would need to test two sources and sometimes one needs
> to reset the integration branch.
>
> martin
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