Hello All,

On Thu, Nov 05, 2026 at 06:52:47PM +0100, Marcus wrote:

> Am 05.11.26 um 12:14 schrieb Jim Jagielski:
> > Since the focus is on getting AOO5 out, we should assume that anything 
> > added to `trunk` is a candidate for backport to `AOO50X`.
> > 
> > If there are long-term, "experimental" work efforts, then we don't want to 
> > stop them, but, IMO at least, maybe they should be done in branches off of 
> > `trunk` and not folded _into_ trunk. One reason why work on 4.2.X stagnated 
> > was because of that exact reason: that trunk and AOO42X just diverged way, 
> > way too much.
> > 
> > Does that make sense?
>
> in theory yes.

It makes sense to me too.

I think we could also accept force-pushes to such separate
branches... but that may be worth a separate discussion.

> It would work good when every dev thinks / remember always
> and in every situation this role - also in 12 month.

I am not sure I understand what you mean?

> To support this, maybe it be better when we have a role that takes care of
> the release management in general.
> 
> One task is to keep an eye on the commits of every branch inkl. trunk.
> As an increase, every dev has to ask if committing / merging in a branch is
> ok, before doing so.

Pull requests should be issued in the Review-then-Commit spirit and
thus serve to this purpose... shouldn't they?

Best regards,
-- 
Arrigo

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