On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Happy-melon <[email protected]> wrote:
> If a feature freeze is to work, it has to either a) be for a very short
> period so that developers neither get disenchanted and wander off nor start
> stockpiling working-copy changes to empty onto trunk once it's thawed, or b)
> be part of a fundamental change in the way we approach rewrites.  It would
> be perfectly acceptable to move to a completely different paradigm where
> branches are used properly, regularly reviewed, get plenty of
> inter-developer testing and can be smoothly merged back into trunk in an
> organised fashion.  But right now, the only way to reliably get external
> eyes on code is to put it in trunk; the occasions when multiple developers
> are working on the same branch are both rare and not quite the same thing.
>

I'm proposing (a). Shifting to (b) is an organizational shift, and some
people don't seem to think it can happen unless we move to the
Magical World of Git.

-Chad

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