[python-committers] [PSF-Members] Code Simplicity » Open Source Community, Simplified

[Nick Coghlan]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> Call me unadventurous, but i'd quite like to see how we get on ding things the *right* way first.

Call me pessimistic, but I'm predicting that quite a few people
(including me) will continue their existing workflow, which is to work
primarily on the main development branch. Without a reasonable
backporting workflow, the end result will simply be stuff not being
incorporated into maintenance branches.

The backport approach allows the backport to be handled by someone
other than the original committer, and defers the decision on whether
or not a change is suitable for a maintenance branch until a more
reasonable time in the process (i.e. after you have tried it out on
the developmental branch first). The recommended Mercurial way asks
people to make the decision of which branch to target *far* too early
in the process.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia