Re: [boost] [SVN]Best Practices for developers using SVN

From: Phil Richards (news_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-03 15:00:34

On 2007-08-03, Stefan Seefeld <seefeld_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>  Douglas Gregor wrote:
> > Yes, and we need to fix the trunk, not devise elaborate processes to 
> > isolate the "civilized world" of releases from the "wild west" of the 
> > development trunk.
[...]
>  I'd suggest this:
>  * establish a 'stable' branch (by copying from RC_1_34_0). [...]
>  * establish goals for 1.35, [...]
>  * Discouraging developers to check *anything* into trunk any more, but instead,
>    encourage the use of branches as a means to backport changes that now are in
>    trunk, and should go into stable, whether in time for 1.35 or not.

For what it's worth, I completely agree with the first and third points here.

This development model *does* work.  It is the one that I use (and have
used) every day for the last 5 years.[*]

But for it to work it also requires all the tools changes/fixes that
Doug has been saying to get done - the "stable" (or "release branch")
must be being tested (and obviously in a more efficient way than it is
currently).

phil

[*] And no, I haven't managed a large open source project release
before; I just manage the release of the 20 or 30 interrelated
libraries/applications used by multiple projects in my day job.

The "process" that we have normally means that I can assemble a release
from the non-broken mainlines pretty quickly.  Or highlight the
integration problems, as the case may be.

Of course, I have written quite a lot of tools to help me...
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