Re: [mylyn-versions-dev] API freeze branching

[Steffen Pingel <steffen.pingel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

We don't have a date set but I want to move ahead with this sooner
rather than later:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=329561

Depending overall consensus and capacity for releng changes it may not
happen before Indigo though.

Steffen


On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 5:00 PM, alvaro sanchez <alvsan09@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It makes sense,
> What is the plan for the migration to git ?
>
> Regards
> /Alvaro
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Steffen Pingel
> <steffen.pingel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> In the past we have tried avoiding branching except for service
>> releases. Branching is somewhat painful with CVS and tracking changes
>> on multiple branches creates extra overhead.
>>
>> Since the release is only two weeks away I would prefer if we could
>> block head for that time frame and do the feature work in branches.
>>
>> Once we move all projects to Git I'd be happy to define a policy to
>> branch right after API freeze or something like that.
>>
>> Does that make sense?
>>
>> Steffen
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:22 PM, alvaro sanchez <alvsan09@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> As mentioned earlier in R4E we are not ready to participate in the API
>>> freeze for the 0.7 release,
>>> so to avoid conflicts we started updates in Mylyn Versions from a
>>> branch, we will soon need to start branching R4E in order to compile
>>> with the updated Mylyn Versions.
>>>
>>> Since the code participating in the 0.7 release is more stable (e.g.
>>> less activity) I am wondering if it would be more convenient to move
>>> the code participating in 0.7 to a branch so the current activities
>>> with versions and reviews could continue updates of the API and
>>> implementation from the HEAD.
>>>
>>> How is this normally handled e.g. with other Mylyn projects ?
>>>
>>> /Alvaro
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>>
>>
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