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

[Jan Cholasta]

Hi,

On 11.10.2016 15:11, 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.

+1

>
> 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)

Personally I would just keep them there, but I don't really care.

>
> 2. Too big traffic on a list.
> - IMO we actually want it - progress will be visible to others

+1

>
>
> Naming:
> I propose:
>   refactoring-XXX
>   feature-XXX

I would be perfectly fine with just XXX, but again I don't really care.

>
> Thoughts? Anyone against?
>

Honza

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Jan Cholasta