On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Ted Yu <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am generally fine with branching. > > Looking at the blocker / critical bug list for 0.96, the number of such > issues (39 as of writing of this email) increased compared to a few days > ago. > People marked their JIRAs this way so that their work gets picked up for > 0.96 > > Considering that all the fixes for these issues would be integrated twice > once branching happens, I wonder if there should be a short buffer before > branching so that some of these high priority fixes can go in. > Yeah. This is a problem. We have been running for months w/ blockers and criticals at about 8 and 30 count respectively and the number hasn't been dropping. That the number has gone up because we've called for branch is good I think because it means folks are starting to act as though 0.95/0.96 is going to happen whereas -- witness the unchanged blocker/critical count over months -- this was not the case previously. Regards the pain of committing in multiple places, yeah, I think there is no way out around it, not unless we want to put the 0.95/0.96 branch off until, when? Thanks, St.Ack
