I also would like to know if everyone in the community does understand what is being put into this branch because at some point, the developers of this feature branch would probably ask the community to when they can merge back into master. I would hope it wouldn't be a big surprise when this happens.
If people are confused to what is being patched/merge here, please shout out so we can correct it ASAP. Will ________________________________________ From: Brett Porter [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brett Porter [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 6:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: git branching & commits list Hi, Being based in Sydney, I tend to get a lot of list traffic in one big lump when I wake up. Looking at cloudstack-commits today, there are 139 messages - most of which are a result of git branch merges. This has been the situation a few times before, but this is the largest I recall seeing. There isn't anything necessarily wrong with that, but it has me thinking about the effectiveness of watching that list to provide oversight on the code being committed. I'm asking this out of interest as a mentor in how the podling deals with internal code review, and also to understand how the ASF can best provide git infrastructure as a relatively new service. I'm not actively developing the project, so I wanted to hear how others who are find working with it. The VPC branch is the obvious example at the moment. It has been active since June 15, and has this breakdown of commits: - 232 unique commits - 14 merge commits - 259 commits merged from master So this seems like a good period of time and work to review. Do the other developers here feel they adequately understand what is happening on a feature branch such as this, both in terms of the overall plan for the branch, and the review of the specific commits? Is the commits list remaining an effective tool to keep track of this information? Regards, Brett -- Brett Porter [email protected] http://brettporter.wordpress.com/ http://au.linkedin.com/in/brettporter http://twitter.com/brettporter
