If I remember correctly the idea behind using master and devel-3/devel-4
was to use devel-3 and devel-4 for trunks on 3.x and 4.x and use master
as the latest released version.
I am not proposing to use master one way or another, just stating my
understanding behind the current configuration of the Apex core and
malhar branches.
Thank you,
Vlad
On 1/21/16 15:18, Thomas Weise wrote:
It my be possible but I would question why. The master branch does not
serve any other purpose, so why not use it for development?
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Vlad Rozov <[email protected]> wrote:
I guess not, I think that we don't have admin rights to manage apex core
or malhar mirrors on github.
Thank you,
Vlad
On 1/21/16 14:12, Pramod Immaneni wrote:
Can't we set a default branch in the repo to be different from master?
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 2:04 PM, David Yan <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
We have been using the devel-3 branch for development in both Apex Core
and
Apex Malhar. The reason was that we wanted to have the master branch to
point to the latest release so that when a user checks out from our git
repo, it's always the latest source release and it always works.
But on the other hand, from what I see, that is not what most active
apache
projects do. I checked Flink, Spark, Storm, Samza, Pig, Hive, and
Hadoop,
and ALL of these projects have commits on the master branch that are at
most one day old. Apex Core on the other hand, the last commit on the
master branch was Nov, 2015, and that was when we released Apex Core
3.2.0.
Because of our stale master branch, it's easy for someone outside of the
Apex community to conclude that Apex is not very active compared to other
Apache projects.
To me, the benefits of using the devel-3 branch are simply not worth the
potential cost. I would like to propose that we get rid of the devel-3
branch and use the master branch for development, instead of having the
master branch always reflecting the latest release. We use tags for that
purpose.
Please share your thoughts.
Thanks!
David
