[CCC DEV] Branch question/confusion

[Matt Jadud]

OK.

If you throw a few notes somewhere/anywhere about this (very brief is
fine---just so it isn't encoded only in this thread) so I can come back to
it (or you can point me at it when I do the wrong thing), that would be
great.

Cheers,
Matt


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Martin Ellis <ellism88 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Matt Jadud <matt at jadud.com> wrote:
>
>> In terms of branching and releasing: back-merging anything sounds like
>> work.
>
>
> It is usually easy (thanks to git), as you can just cherry-pick bug fixes
> into the branch.
> We can also make it easier by making sure our commits are fine enough
> grained, and only working on small bits of code at once.
>
>
>> Unless we can justify the time, how about if we just tag at stable
>> points. Declare major revision updates when a big feature comes in.
>> Otherwise, let the past in the repos be the past? (Or, if you prefer, give
>> me a good reason why the back porting matters? I don't see one, but I'll
>> admit that I haven't thought about it.)
>
>
> It may not be necessary, but lets us maintain a stable branch, that does
> not have non-backwards compatible changes in it.
> This way people who are using and not developing can be happy that new
> minor releases are just bug fixes and will not effect their code.
> Think python 2 V 3.
> It is extra work, but it will give people more confidence in the code.
> I have used this model for projects with only a handful of developers and
> it works well, and fits well into the code review/pull system.
>
> --
> M
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