[Python-Dev] sprints and pushes

[Simon Cross]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:25:01 -0700
> Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>>
>> I think the use-case has been lost.  Think sprints and multiple push
>> races.  No one is arguing that the smoke-test should be the default, but
>> seriously, are you willing to spend an hour or more re-running the
>> complete suite of tests six, eight, or 12 times because of push races in
>> a sprint?  I can see losing a good portion of your sprinting day.

Our sprint model has been to set up a throw-away sprint repository
somewhere accessible (github, bitbucket, wherever) and have everyone
commit madly to it however they want. Afterwards a few brace souls
take the result and commit it to the master repository in a more
orderly fashion.