On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Mark A. Hershberger <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> The problem with our current VCS is the sort of work-flow that has
> developed around it.
>
> But we can solve the work-flow problem without introducing an entirely
> new VCS and disrupting everything for a month or so while people adjust
> to the new system.
>
> The solution I'm proposing is that we branch 1.18 immediately after the
> release of the 1.17 tarball.
>
> Revisions marked “OK” (or, perhaps, tagged “118”) on the trunk could be
> merged to the 1.18 branch.  Or, to make merging into 1.18 less of a
> chore for a single person, we could enable those doing code review to
> merge code they've reviewed into the 1.18 branch.  In this way, we
> achieve Roan's (and my) goal of continuous integration.
>

If by this you suggest that 1.18 will be Wikimedia's actual live deployment
branch, and that it should always be within a day or two's commits from
trunk, then I can get down with that.


-- brion
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