On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Hannes Magnusson <
[email protected]> wrote:

> (remember to reply-to-all)
>
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 4:19 AM, Paul Dragoonis <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Hannes Magnusson
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Levi Morrison <[email protected]
> >
> >> wrote:
> >> > Dear list,
> >> >
> >> > I've been really bad about communicating my work on the php.net beta
> >> > site;
> >> > I'm sorry. This email is intended to give a vision of what I think
> still
> >> > needs to be done before we can go live. The responsive branch of the
> >> > php-web repository houses the work I've been doing. It's up-to-date
> with
> >> > everything I've done except for adding some content on the homepage;
> >> > I'll
> >> > get that back up in the next day or two.
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm a littlebit afraid of the branches diverging from eachother, so
> >> the sooner it'll be merged back into master the better.
> >>
> >> In the meanwhile, I can't see a that branch live anywhere.. Do you
> >> want to switch prototype.php.net to the "responsive" branch?
> >
> >
> > Hi Hannes / Levi,
> >
> > How about we have a 'preview' branch, and prototype will pull against
> that.
> >
> > This way we can actually push changes up to prototype.php.net and see
> them
> > in 'preview mode' before we commit to merging into master.
> >
> > It allows for some review and feedback of changes before we go fully live
> > and potentially break things.
>
> In general I prefer inline versioning then branches for this, as you
> can see we have branches dating back to 2008 which just become dormant
> or to difficult to merge.
>

We will be deleting branches that are no longer used and become merged into
master.


>
> Also, what would be the difference between the responsive branch and
> the preview one?
>

Preview is part of our process, whereas 'responsive' is just a feature
branch that will be merged into master and deleted soon after.


> Posting screenshots along with patches to explain the idea has worked
> pretty well..
>

You can do that, but it's not practical for previewing the actual site and
testing it. People who don't have mirrors for php.net setup (99.9% of
people) will not be able to preview changes.


>
> -Hannes
>

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