Outside view. The misunderstandings appear to originate in the purpose of GiT in the first place:
- CVS/SVN --> Forking is bad, Don;t fork, Head is for active development, tags for snapshots, branching is like theft. Dilution of the developer base - Git --> Forking is good, fork and fork often. Merge back proven things. The first case stifles development through notions of control, common through the Boinc codebase in black and white. The second case encourages development, biologically/genetically. Having used both approaches, I'd recommend a mindset shift toward the newer mechanism. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jason Richard Groothuis bSc(compSci) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ________________________________ From: boinc_dev <boinc_dev-boun...@ssl.berkeley.edu> on behalf of Bernd Machenschalk <bernd.machensch...@aei.mpg.de> Sent: Tuesday, 8 August 2017 14:58 To: David Anderson; boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] Software development and branches, was Re: [boinc_projects] keywords On 07.08.17 21:40, David Anderson wrote: > I've proposed creating server release branches, > similar to the exiting client release branches. > Hopefully this will satisfy everyone's needs. What I (and others) need is a "stable" branch (whatever named) I can - branch off my own development to work without being affected by others - compare and test my changes against, which requires that the original branch is "stable" - merge my development (branch) into when I'm done and I and others are convinced that my development does what it should and doesn't destabilize the branch. I don't see how server release branches would do that. Bernd _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu https://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu https://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
