[Releasing] ODP: rethinking the branching scheme

[Ziller Eike]

On Feb 21, 2014, at 10:30 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:

> Em sex 21 fev 2014, às 16:25:17, Oswald Buddenhagen escreveu:
>> on top of that, your idea to automatically "force" the latest stable on
>> the "consumers" has a downside: it makes it actively hard to use the
>> "oldest version that works" approach (which is a quite reasonable one to
>> prevent accidentally requiring too new api).
> 
> Stable contains "oldest version that works" by definition. Stuff shouldn't land 
> in that branch unless it works.
> 
> That means stuff shouldn't land in dev unless it works.

Reality shows that this is not a realistic view.

> It varies only on how stable it is. But that is true for any branch anyway, 
> except dev.

The dev -> stable merge degrades the quality of what is in the stable branch drastically. So if you track stable, the quality of what you track can vary greatly. I suppose that is what Ossi means. With the current branching scheme you cannot track something that only gets “more stable”.

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