Hi Laurence, On 07/08/17 23:11 , Laurence Field wrote: > On 07/08/17 09:55, Oliver Bock wrote: >> >> As Laurence pointed out: release branches are to stabilize >> and fix releases. >> > This is not what I intended to communicate. When the master (which > should be stable) has the required features and been tested, a release > is made and a branch version major.minor is created. Any important bug > fixes can then be applied (by merging) and released with version > major.minor.release. No new features should be applied to that branch.
I understood and I do agree with your description. This could just be a
matter of wording here.
There could, however, be a minor difference between my and your
approach. Do you intend to actually publish the major.minor release
right after branching off? If that's true than consider this: given that
master is used for integration it, without further measures (see below),
might be unstable at the point where the release branch is created due
to a silently failed integration. Thus I'd create the branch, then first
make sure it's indeed stable ("stabilize") and only then tag
major.minor.0 and publish it. After that the release branch is used for
bug fixes and subsequent major.minor.revision releases only ("fix
releases"). This is roughly (!) in line with what's done in BOINC right
now. And yes, of course there are no new features added to that branch.
Alternatively, one could use your way but that would require a stricter
stability of master. In such a scenario master would have to be frozen
(no more integration) for a short period before a new release branch is
created. It would then be thoroughly tested and after that the release
branch is created and the release build right away. I think that can
have a negative impact on velocity and requires more coordination
between people due to the lockdown of master. Thus I'm slightly in favor
of my approach.
Anyhow, we're already discussing little (yet important) details here and
we should really be focusing on master first.
Cheers,
Oliver
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