[Freeipa-devel] Feature branches for sub-team efforts

[Tomas Krizek]

On 10/11/2016 03:11 PM, Petr Vobornik wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> we discussed locally a proposal about creating a feature branch for each
> sub-team effort in our main git. Currently it would be for the 4 ongoing
> refactoring efforts + Simo's work
>
> Why?
> It will allow each developer to create a pull request against the
> feature branch and thus it will enable iterative development by multiple
> devs without affecting other sub-teams. When the feature(refactoring) is
> finished, the branch would be rebased on master and merged there. Note:
> rebases can be done as needed - e.g. when other subteam finishes its work.
>
> Concerns:
> 1. Upstream git repo would be full of such branches.
> - This can be mitigated by deleting the feature branches when their are
> released or merged(up to discussion)
>
> 2. Too big traffic on a list.
> - IMO we actually want it - progress will be visible to others
>
>
> Naming:
> I propose:
>    refactoring-XXX
>    feature-XXX
>
> Thoughts? Anyone against?
Hi,

I think feature branches are a good idea. Once they're merged, I would 
delete them.

I'm for the refactoring-XXX naming convention.

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Tomas Krizek