On Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 5:51 PM Gregg Reynolds <d...@mobileink.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Sep 5, 2018, 8:04 PM Nathan Heldt-Sheller <
> nathan.heldt-shel...@intel.com> wrote:
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>> Hi IoTivity Devs,
>>
>>
>> In the past, we’ve had a relatively unstable master branch, which has
>> caused us to stick to release branches perhaps longer than we’d like, to
>> avoid battling a constant stream of regressions.  These long-lived branches
>> entail more work cherry picking release branch changes into master,
>> tracking status on two separate branches for longer, etc.
>>
>>
>>
>> Comarch has recently finished installing a nightly regression test using
>> the OCF Certification Test Tool, and will be running it against master
>> every night going forward.  We’ll get an email within 24 hours if an OCTT
>> regression is introduced.  I’m very happy about this J  This – along
>> with existing Jenkins tests – should keep new regressions to a minimum.
>> This in turn means I think we can shorten the lifecycle for our release
>> branches.
>>
>>
>>
>> For the next release (“Bangkok Point Release”, a.k.a. 2.1.0) I’d like to
>> try a much shorter release branch plan.  We’d move all development to
>> master
>>
> Before you do this please take some time to study this:
> https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
>
> Using master for development seems questionable to me.
>

More pointedly, it is not enough to simply support branches. Branch off of
what?

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