Re: A question (or two) of procedure, etc.

2012-09-07 Thread Liviu Nicoara
On 09/06/12 23:00, Martin Sebor wrote: Every project has certain branch strategy, I'm not sure about this so maybe Martin can advice. I prefer to develop on trunk and cherry pick to the other branches avoiding bulk merges (and that's in both directions). We've done most work on 4.2.x for

Re: A question (or two) of procedure, etc.

2012-09-07 Thread Jim Jagielski
Many projects have CTR on trunk and RTC (based on trunk revisions) to branch. This works well. On Sep 7, 2012, at 7:40 AM, Liviu Nicoara nikko...@hates.ms wrote: On 09/06/12 23:00, Martin Sebor wrote: Every project has certain branch strategy, I'm not sure about this so maybe Martin can

Re: A question (or two) of procedure, etc.

2012-09-07 Thread Martin Sebor
We should remember that there are a number of Jira issues that we fixed on 4.2.x but haven't merged out to 4.3.x or trunk. The idea behind the current process (4.2.x - 4.3.x - trunk) was to be able to simply merge the branches in bulk, as opposed to an fix at a time. Unfortunately, we ran into

Re: A question (or two) of procedure, etc.

2012-09-07 Thread Liviu Nicoara
On 09/07/12 10:54, Martin Sebor wrote: We should remember that there are a number of Jira issues that we fixed on 4.2.x but haven't merged out to 4.3.x or trunk. The idea behind the current process (4.2.x - 4.3.x - trunk) was to be able to simply merge the branches in bulk, as opposed to an fix

Re: A question (or two) of procedure, etc.

2012-09-06 Thread Wojciech Meyer
Liviu Nicoara nikko...@hates.ms writes: What is the latest policy in what regards trivial fixes, e.g., the volatile qualifier for the max var in LIMITS.cpp we discussed earlier, etc.? It seems excessive to create a bug report for such issues. My advice based on some observations with other

Re: A question (or two) of procedure, etc.

2012-09-06 Thread Liviu Nicoara
On 09/06/12 14:37, Wojciech Meyer wrote: Liviu Nicoara nikko...@hates.ms writes: What is the latest policy in what regards trivial fixes, e.g., the volatile qualifier for the max var in LIMITS.cpp we discussed earlier, etc.? It seems excessive to create a bug report for such issues. [...] So

Re: A question (or two) of procedure, etc.

2012-09-06 Thread Jim Jagielski
Trivial fixes should just be fixed... the normal expectation is that bug reports are for non-trivial bugs or for trivial (and non-trivial) bugs reported from the outside. If a committers sees a bug, just go ahead and fix it, and document the fix in a commit log, changefile, etc ;) On Sep 6,

Re: A question (or two) of procedure, etc.

2012-09-06 Thread Martin Sebor
Anyone is welcome to express their opinion here, especially if you are or have in the past contributed to the project. The weight of the opinion is (or should be) commensurate to the value of the contributions. I think the ASF calls this Meritocracy. I made the stdcxx process increasingly more

Re: A question (or two) of procedure, etc.

2012-09-06 Thread Martin Sebor
One thing I forgot to mention: we have three active branches, and, for better or worse, most changes tend to get committed to 4.2.x first. It's easy to forget or delay committing the same change to 4.3.x and trunk. Having an issue in Jira serves as a reminder to also commit the change to the

Re: A question (or two) of procedure, etc.

2012-09-06 Thread Martin Sebor
Every project has certain branch strategy, I'm not sure about this so maybe Martin can advice. I prefer to develop on trunk and cherry pick to the other branches avoiding bulk merges (and that's in both directions). We've done most work on 4.2.x for historical reasons. I think a better strategy

Re: A question (or two) of procedure, etc.

2012-09-06 Thread Wojciech Meyer
Liviu Nicoara nikko...@hates.ms writes: I sure hope we can have totally open (civilized) discussions going forward. :) Yes I'm also sure we can, thanks :-) -- Wojciech Meyer http://danmey.org