"Dave Goodell (dgoodell)" <dgood...@cisco.com> writes: > You're not wrong about the advantages of a merge-based workflow. I > just don't think it changes what the community is choosing to do right > now.
No worries. I didn't notice previous workflow discussion and I've seen history repeat itself with minor variations many times over the years, so I thought it was worth commenting. >>> Put differently: the dev tag is solely for ordering of nightly snapshot >>> tarballs. >> >> It affects git describe output as a side-effect and when someone writes >> the mailing list with a bug in a year-old nightly snapshot, you'll need >> to query the repository (or have a better memory than me) to have any >> idea what they're working with. Perhaps you are blessed with users that >> don't do things like this. > > Checking the repo isn't particularly onerous, IMO. It's a lot easier > than searching old bug tickets, which you're also likely to need to do > when dealing with bugs reported against old snapshots. Also, there's > almost no scenario where a user should be reporting bugs against a > years-old "master" snapshot. I'm glad you have such delightful users. ;-)
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