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From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To: Joseph Huttner <jhuttner@appnexus.com>
Cc: "git\@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Git workflow for beta/production
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:10:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <868vwh47ss.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <324BE2A8-5987-4324-AE27-D5CC01341710@appnexus.com> (Joseph Huttner's message of "Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:27:22 -0700")

>>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph Huttner <jhuttner@appnexus.com> writes:

Joseph> The catch is that after a feature has been stomped on in Beta,
Joseph> it **may** go to Production, but only if Product Managers still
Joseph> think it is an important feature.  In other words, there is no
Joseph> guarantee that a feature in Beta will ever make it to
Joseph> Production.  It may be axed completely, in which case it would
Joseph> never get to Production and would be taken out of Beta.  Also,
Joseph> there is no guarantee that features that do make it to
Joseph> Production will go in in the order that they went in to Beta.

Sounds like you want the same sort of workflow that git itself uses,
with topic branches.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-14 23:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-14 22:27 Git workflow for beta/production Joseph Huttner
2011-03-14 23:10 ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
2011-03-14 23:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-15 12:10 ` Drew Northup

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