Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Managing RC bug merges

2012-09-10 Thread Dan Scott
On Sep 5, 2012 11:48 AM, Galen Charlton g...@esilibrary.com wrote: Hi, On 09/05/2012 11:41 AM, Bill Erickson wrote: Surely there's a psychological difference between 2.2.3 and 2.3.0, but I don't see one in practice. If anything, 2.2.3 has *more* cause to be handled with kid gloves, since

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Managing RC bug merges

2012-09-05 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi All, We've reached the stage in the release cycle where we have to limit which bug fixes can be merged into 2.3 RC to prevent unnecessary disruption to the soon-to-be GA code. However, we don't want to limit bug merges in the 2.3 branch, because anything that doesn't make the GA release

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Managing RC bug merges

2012-09-05 Thread Mike Rylander
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Bill Erickson erick...@esilibrary.com wrote: Hi All, We've reached the stage in the release cycle where we have to limit which bug fixes can be merged into 2.3 RC to prevent unnecessary disruption to the soon-to-be GA code. However, we don't want to limit

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Managing RC bug merges

2012-09-05 Thread Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich
On Sep 5, 2012, at 08:27 , Bill Erickson wrote: [...] 2. I'd like to change the definition of showstopper, i.e. what can and cannot make it into an RC. I propose that any reasonable bug fix may be merged into an RC provided the commit has 3 sign-offs in total -- the author, plus 2

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Managing RC bug merges

2012-09-05 Thread Galen Charlton
Hi, On 09/05/2012 09:27 AM, Bill Erickson wrote: 1. Create an origin/rel_2_3_rc1 branch. (I mentioned this briefly in my recent RC1 planning email). It will be a child of tags/rel_2_3_rc1. All fixes that meet the RC standards (more below) may be merged into this branch. tags/rel_2_3_0, and

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Managing RC bug merges

2012-09-05 Thread Bill Erickson
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 10:22:55AM -0400, Galen Charlton wrote: Hi, On 09/05/2012 09:27 AM, Bill Erickson wrote: 1. Create an origin/rel_2_3_rc1 branch. (I mentioned this briefly in my recent RC1 planning email). It will be a child of tags/rel_2_3_rc1. All fixes that meet the RC

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Managing RC bug merges

2012-09-05 Thread Galen Charlton
Hi, On 09/05/2012 11:41 AM, Bill Erickson wrote: Surely there's a psychological difference between 2.2.3 and 2.3.0, but I don't see one in practice. If anything, 2.2.3 has *more* cause to be handled with kid gloves, since 2.2 is much more widely used in production systems. .0 releases often