[Libreoffice] Workflow proposal

[Bjoern Michaelsen]

Hi Kendy,

On Tue, 31 May 2011 10:43:22 +0200
Jan Holesovsky <kendy at suse.cz> wrote:

> To sum up my proposal:
> 
> - master
>   - no review, anything can be committed / merged into it
>     - as long as the author did her / his best to make sure it
>       builds / does not break the tests)
> 
> - libreoffice-A-X
>   - branch created with the first beta
>   - only fixes go in, no features
>     - exception for the late features: 2 additional reviews, from
> people with different affiliation than the original author
>   - no review until the last beta, libreoffice-A-(X-1) can be merged
>     into it when in the "no review" mode
>     - such a merge depends on TSC recommendation
>   - 1 review after the last beta, no merging into the branch any more
>     - any source of the patch goes - be it a patch sent to the mailing
>       list, pasted via pastebin, a cherry-pick from master, or
>       cherry-pick from any other branch
>     - the reviewer pushes to the branch [unless the reviewer and
> author agree on something else ;-)] with the appropriate
> Signed-off-by: tag [use the "-s" option of git commit or git
> cherry-pick ;-)]
>   - regularly [Q: once a week? or when a tag appears?], all
>     libreoffice-A-* merged into master
>     - of course a no-op when there are no changes in a particular
>       release branch
> 
> - libreoffice-A-X-Y
>   - branch created with the "semifinal" RC (see the release plan)
>   - 2 additional reviews [Q: wouldn't actually just 1 additional be
>     enough?]
>   - only cherry-picking from libreoffice-3-X, the 2nd reviewer pushes
>   - no merges back to anything
> 
> I believe this fits most of the needs - people can work either on
> master, and let others cherry-pick, or work on the release branch,
> being sure that the fix will appear in master in up to one week /
> when a tag appears, so that the timeframe for duplication is minimal.
> 
> How does that sound?

looks good, deserves a wiki page! Regardless of:
 http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/merge-issues-td3005672.html
having a rough documentation of how we do stuff is a great thing.

Best,

Bjoern

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