Re: Do we still want develop branch?

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-11-06 00:39:08

Robert Ramey wrote:
> On 11/5/23 3:02 PM, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> > Andrey Semashev wrote:
> >> (This workflow actually makes develop meaningless because your CI over
> >> the feature branch already tests your changes against develop of the
> >> rest of Boost. Which means after merging to develop you're running the
> >> same CI again, and might as well just merge to master straight away.)
> >
> > You are, but others aren't. They aren't testing your feature branch, but
> > they are testing your develop branch each time they merge to develop.
> 
> Right.  But I never signed up to spend time testing/debugging other
> peoples libraries!  I really resent doing this. I'm fully occupied just
> testing/debugging my own errors (and of those that submit PRS)

If we at Boost don't test our own libraries, who is supposed to?