Re: Issues that straddle releases

2020-02-28 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 7:20 PM Thomas Passin wrote: The series starts here: > > https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180312-00/?p=98215 > Thanks for the link. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from

Re: Issues that straddle releases

2020-02-27 Thread Thomas Passin
Yes, and some would say that you should open a separate new branch for every single bug. If you haven't seen it, Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing had a whole series on how to organize, merge, and commit git branches to avoid strange problems like giving the "blame" to the wrong person. Very

Re: Issues that straddle releases

2020-02-27 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 10:41:03 AM UTC-6, Edward K. Ream wrote: At last I see that I can begin work on a potentially dangerous issue *now, *even > if it is prudent to include the issue in some later release. This allows > important bug fixes to be tested immediately. > Some

Issues that straddle releases

2020-02-27 Thread Edward K. Ream
I don't like to fix bugs involving Leo's most crucial code late in a release cycle. Imo, such bugs should be fixed early in the *next* release cycle. That way the new can be thoroughly tested. In the past, I have just postponed work on such issues until an official release has gone out the