[zeromq-dev] Git workflow proposal

Peter Alexander vel.accel at gmail.com
Sun Aug 8 18:05:25 CEST 2010


On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Peter Alexander <vel.accel at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Peter Alexander <vel.accel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > Have you seen
>> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitworkflows.html
>>
>> Yes, it's similar in some ways but more complex.  Also I've tried to
>> keep our workflow as an explicit set of steps we follow.  I assume git
>> contributors know git a lot better than 0MQ contributors.
>>
>> Rather than try to merge arbitrary parts of one workflow into another,
>> I'd rather work by identifying problems in the proposed workflow and
>> fixing those until it's as simple as we can make it, and still robust.
>>
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>
> Sure, I agree. I should have qualified the submitted link with "as a
> reference have you seen..." ;-)
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>> The main ideas:
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>> - we stop working on trunk
>> - we tie all work into the issue tracker
>> - we enforce reviewing of work
>>
>
> I got confused by "latest stable version" as a descriptor of master branch.
> It detracts from the notion of "to be included in next official release".
>
> Not mentioned and possibly to be considered is using the 'tag' feature on
> the master branch for releases and other milestones.
>
> The proposal is a very good strong protocol, imho. The only thing I would
> also observe is that the instruction of the inclusion of the MIT license for
> "contributors" was not mentioned there.
>

But then again there is a page dedicated for contributing patches, so
disregard the last observation or maybe consolidate the two pages.

>
> ~Peter
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>> -Pieter
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