Please let's keep this for the other thread I am trying to start off. It's really related to how we work with branches and how we use CI
(But that is a more complex thread to kick off) So let's keep this thread on topic please On Sun 19 Mar 2017 at 15:59, Christian Schulte <c...@schulte.it> wrote: > Am 19.03.2017 um 13:13 schrieb Stephen Connolly: > > We need to define: > > > > * what is a bug vs what is an rfe > > > > * what are the different severities for bugs and rfes > > > > * what severity bugs block: an alpha, a beta, a full release > > > > * what do the different release types mean? (My take, alpha is not > feature > > complete, beta is not free of bugs, rc is hopefully the real deal) > > > > * how do we decide when to bump major, minor and patch version numbers > and > > what scope of changes should be allowed in a non-patch bump > > > > I'd like to add > > * how to commit to branches carrying the next release (master)? We are > coming from everyone just commits to master as needed. Now everyone is > creating branches and then merges that to master. Does not make much of > a difference. What I do not like is that currently no one is testing > things from branches of someone else. I am working with 3.5.0-SNAPSHOT > (3.4.0-SNAPSHOT) locally for more than a year. A lot of testing no > longer taking place the way we work with branches now. Maybe we should > create a dedicated dev or snapshot branch everyone can merge to which > then gets merged to master by some release manager when it's time to do. > Process to create a release would be something like: > > - merge the snapshot/dev branch to master > - release:prepare release:perform on master > - merge the master branch with the next snapshot version back to the > snapshot/dev branch > - continue there until next release > > Regards, > -- > Christian > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > -- Sent from my phone
