[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Trunk still not open
From: |
David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: Trunk still not open |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:35:41 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>
> > > I think that in future there needs to be more of a culture of people at
> > > least trying to document their own changes, around the time they make
> > > them.
> >
> > Agreed.
> >
> > > Some people said they want more frequent releases.
> > > Well, you can't have that unless more people start doing some of the
> > > less-interesting work that goes along with releases.
> >
> > Indeed.
>
> All very true, but practically speaking this has to be decided at the
> project level, and accompanied by a no-push-without-required-docs
> policy. It's quite possible that this policy once explicitly decided
> will require essentially zero enforcement (part of the problem is that
> there's probably much less than 100% awareness of the less-interesting
> tasks), but you need to be prepared to enforce by demanding docs, and
> if necessary reverting doc-less patches.
Well, one could push them to an "undocumented" branch. That one gets
rebased from time to time on the trunk, so any commit from there that
has made it with documentation into the trunk will no longer be in there
after rebasing.
What could go wrong?
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Trunk still not open, Glenn Morris, 2014/03/13
- Re: Trunk still not open, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/03/14
- Re: Trunk still not open, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/03/14
- Re: Trunk still not open,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Trunk still not open, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/03/14
- Re: Trunk still not open, David Kastrup, 2014/03/14
- Re: Trunk still not open, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/03/14
- Re: Trunk still not open, David Kastrup, 2014/03/14
- Re: Trunk still not open, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/03/14
- Re: Trunk still not open, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/03/14
- Re: Trunk still not open, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/03/14
- Re: Trunk still not open, Jambunathan K, 2014/03/15
- Re: Trunk still not open, Dmitry Gutov, 2014/03/14
- Re: Trunk still not open, Stefan Monnier, 2014/03/14