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

[Georg Brandl]

Am 02.02.2011 19:47, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:
> Le mercredi 02 février 2011 à 19:39 +0100, Jesus Cea a écrit :
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>> On 02/02/11 19:28, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>> >> The merge here is mostly automatic. In fact, if the RM doesn't change
>> >> his/her clone at all, the merge is "null", even if devel repository has
>> >> evolved a lot in the meantime.
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>> > By merge I meant the cherry picking operation itself ("svnmerge").
>> 
>> To be concrete, how many patches went inside 2.7.0 after cutting the
>> "rc1"?. Ideally, the answer should be "a handful".
> 
> I don't think we are talking about branching after rc1 but after beta1,
> so that the feature branch can continue receive non-bugfix patches.
> That's quite many changesets to review.

I don't think branching off at beta1 is helpful.  Developers will happily
continue adding features to trunk (because that's what's fun, isn't it),
and not care much about the release branch.  Obviously we want the opposite,
and we want them to concentrate on bug fixing.

Georg