On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 08:42 -0400, Gary Oberbrunner wrote:
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> Hi Russel -- we haven't yet tried long-lived ongoing development on a
> separate feature branch, but I see no reason that shouldn't work.  For
> simple patches, most people are submitting on the default branch,
> which is simplest for maintainers to merge.  I think you could work
> either in a named branch, and submit pull requests from there (the
> wiki has doc for how to merge those into the main repo), or in the
> default branch of a separate scons-d repo and submit pull requests
> from there.  Either one involves a merge on the maintainer's end.  I
> don't think either one can cause a development freeze unless the patch
> causes other outstanding patches to suddenly be un-mergeable (which I
> hope will not happen).  On your end if you want to work in a
> combination of those two ways (work on a branch and periodically merge
> to default and submit pull requests from there) that's fine too; I
> don't think the maintainer's job will be any different if you work
> that way.

My worry with the single repository with default a mirror and a named
branch is that in order to process any pull requests you have to accept
the presence of the named branch in the mainline repository?

-- 
Russel.
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