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 >
