[Libreoffice-qa] [Libreoffice] Java 7 support in LO 3.4.5 (was: minutes of tech. steering call ...)

[Pedro Lino]

> But developers don't commit to the central repository. They commit to
> their local "clones" of it, and then at some (much) later stage push
> outstanding commits to the central repository. And then there are
> feature branches and merges...

Ok. Wrong wording. What I meant was "the time a change was pushed to
the central repository by a developer" which is comparable to the pull
time from the central repository.

> In this case (and usually) it is the other way around: Fixes are done
> on master, and those deemed good and important are "cherry-picked" to
> a stable branch. (Although technically, as we use different repository
> structure for master and 3-4 (single "core" vs. a bunch), it isn't a
> cherry-pick.)

Excellent. Then all good changes are in the master already :)

Thank you for the clarification ;)

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Pedro