[Releasing] rethinking the branching scheme

[Thiago Macieira]

Em qui 20 fev 2014, às 11:25:33, Oswald Buddenhagen escreveu:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:05:15PM -0800, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > Em qua 19 fev 2014, às 16:35:05, Ziller Eike escreveu:
> > > We have to “remember" that sha. A natural way to do that is to have it
> > > as
> > > HEAD of a 5.2 branch
> > 
> > We have that. It's the old/5.2 branch.
> > 
> > Right now, it doesn't exist because the release branch contains[*] it, for
> > the moment.
> > 
> > [*] no, it doesn't. For qtbase, it should be
> > d7b0581c1c2ef60c08d238dae39298af6904918f.
> 
> that's because the release downmerge happened days before the stable
> downmerge, and given that the downmerge was completed by CI at a more or
> less random moment, it isn't trivial to do it much better without
> potentially multiple manual fixups per repo. that's why i said
> maintaining the old/ branches is a hassle. the approach is Just Wrong.

That's exactly what you proposed in this thread. I don't think creating the 
old/5.x branches is a problem. They're not CI checked and we're talking about 
creating a branch.

As for the releases branch missing data, it's a matter of fast-forward. The CI 
can be bypassed.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center