Re: Switching SCM to git and commit/review policy

[Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>]

Rolf Leggewie <no2spam@nospam.arcornews.de> writes:

> Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>  - an oe-next tree could be done that grabs from usual contributors
>>    and merge daily to check for conflicts and warn the developers
>>    (mostly the same concept of linux-next)
>
> This is an extension of an idea from Florian Boor, which at first I was
> sceptical about, but which I'd like to put out here in the open because
> I can start to see how it might work.  It also has the potential to
> reconcile "no human intervention/automation" with "maximum review possible".
>
> We have a stable tree which remains as is.  We create an unstable tree
> which is where stuff is being committed to.  There is a review period of
> say 2 days after which changes from .unstable are automatically moved to
> .dev unless there is an objection from a developper.  NACK'ed changesets
> need to be flagged as such to prevent them from moving from .unstable to
>  .dev
>
> This is very similar and inspired by the Debian release process
> (unstable -> testing -> stable).  The big difference is that we are
> dealing with code changesets where debian's objects are released binary
> packages.
>
> Would that be feasible and helpful?

In my opinion it will not work fine. I see following prolems:

 - the tree will be a moving target, without stable revision numbers
   and difficult to merge, base work in and like

 - most of the pros can be done using the oe-next tree. Doing a full
   compilation of changed modules before and after each merge gives a
   nice feedback for trivial problems

 - Being available on unstable doesn't mean it'll be tested

 - 2 days is a too short testing window

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