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Re: Next release from master
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Óscar Fuentes |
Subject: |
Re: Next release from master |
Date: |
Wed, 10 Feb 2016 04:43:46 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:
> Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Exactly. And developing features on `master' entirely bypasses the "it
>> works" phase, and that is a recipe for disaster.
>
> Uhm, no? Presumably everybody tests stuff before they push it.
Yes, presumably... see my response to Kaushal Modi.
> No work, no push. And it's what we've been doing for... how many
> decades? Yet no disaster.
The Emacs developer community is outstanding by their quality. We also
have a few individuals who are well known for their bug-busting
habilities (and for devoting countless hours to that task.) We also have
looong pre-test and test phases, which acts as some type of hygiene that
prevents the project quality from sinking below certain line.
I'm not proposing a change on how Emacs is developed, I'm opposing the
proposed changed that consists on using `master' for changes that are
multi-commit, potentially destabilizing, and intrusive. That is, changes
that have a serious potential for annoying the community while being
hard to revert at the same time.
>> ** Some merges should require an approval by the maintainer. This is no
>> different from how things are done now. See the cases of the xwidget
>> branch, the ffi branch...
>
> Nobody is arguing against having separate branches for major new
> features. But most features aren't so major.
Nor I'm arguin for having branches for minor changes, neither have I a
problem at all with you developing Gnus in `master' (speaking as a Gnus
user.)
- Re: Next release from master, (continued)
- Re: Next release from master, Stefan Monnier, 2016/02/09
- Re: Next release from master, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/09
- Re: Next release from master, Rasmus, 2016/02/09
- Re: Next release from master, Kaushal Modi, 2016/02/09
- Re: Next release from master, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/02/09
- Re: Next release from master, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/09
- Re: Next release from master, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/02/09
- Re: Next release from master, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/09
- Re: Next release from master,
Óscar Fuentes <=
- Re: Next release from master, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/09
- Re: Next release from master, Alexis, 2016/02/09
- Re: Next release from master, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/02/09
- Re: Next release from master, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/02/09
- Re: Next release from master, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/02/09
- Re: Next release from master, Alexis, 2016/02/09
- Re: Next release from master, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/02/10
- Re: Next release from master, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/10
- Re: Next release from master, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/02/09
- Re: Next release from master, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/10