[Development] Branches

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:24:46PM +0100, Knoll Lars wrote:
> On Dec 12, 2012, at 5:39 PM, Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen at digia.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 07:59:07AM -0800, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> >> On quarta-feira, 12 de dezembro de 2012 14.03.52, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 04:29:24PM +0000, Knoll Lars wrote:
> >>>> master is closed for new pushes and will go away in a couple of weeks by
> >>>> the latest.
> >>> this has happened now - the master branches are all deleted.
> >>> 
> >>> due to the mess found in the master branches, i simply deleted them
> >> 
> >> Would you please stop making project-wide decisions without posting to the 
> >> mailing list and letting people chime in?
> >> 
> > considering the scope of the enterprise (seven commits total),
> > discussing this on irc with a relevant guy (sahumada) seemed wholly
> > sufficient.
> 
> The scope is not the problem. It's still the right thing to let people
> know *before* the actions are taken. Posting that mail is not
> difficult.
> 
thiago complained about the decision making process, not the announcement.

and regarding announcements: to be reasonably effective, it would need
to be done at least a day in advance. given the minor impact (*) and the
potential (**) time-criticality, i don't think this would have been a
reasonable delay.

(*) there was actually some fallout on the CI. but let's face it: the
delay wouldn't have changed anything, because the root cause was lying
several days in the past and nobody was aware of it.
(**) judging by the enthusiasm of the reviewers, nobody seems to
actually care for these commits ...