On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Pedro Giffuni <p...@apache.org> wrote: > > > --- On Thu, 10/13/11, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > >> I recommend separating review from (automated) execution. >> If this is done, a branch shouldn't be necessary... >> > > Uhm.. can you elaborate a bit more?
For projects of this scale, some level of automated help is typically needed. > A branch would save us from having say... 1000 commits with > header changes in the history. Apache uses version control as the canonical record. It's therefore essential to know why a header was changed and by whom. Robert