[phobos] Integration branches

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

OK. Then we'll keep the idea in mind going forward without acting on it yet.

Thanks all,

Andrei

On 6/3/11 11:52 AM, Brad Roberts wrote:
> I've never seen this actually add value before.  All it does is shift where things break.  We're not having cross-pull
> request conflicts.  We're having simple "it doesn't work" breakage.  Whether that shows up on a build from the trunk or
> an integration branch, the bottom line is it's broken and it causes work to revert them.
>
> I'm not opposed to trying it, but I don't really have the extra time to invest in a project I see as being not-useful.
> I encourage those that do to do so though since I could easily be wrong.  It wouldn't be the first time.
>
> Later,
> Brad
>
> On 6/3/2011 8:44 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> 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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