[Biojava-dev] Post-release branches

[Andreas Prlic]

+1 we are not making enough usage of branches currently. And while we are
at it, I recommend everybody to use the SourceTree software for managing
git commits and branches. Makes life easy.

A



On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 5:40 AM, Jose Manuel Duarte <jose.duarte at psi.ch>
wrote:

>  +1
>
> Sounds like a good idea, if people are familiar enough with git that
> should not be very demanding.
>
> Regarding naming I like the "patch, minor, master" suggestion. Like that
> the branch names will stay stable for any version.
>
> Jose
>
>
>
> On 30.01.2015 14:14, Spencer Bliven wrote:
>
>   One of the things I would like to be better about post-4.0.0 is
> releasing bug fixes more quickly. For instance, users were complaining
> about having to wait for 4.0.0 to work with Java 8, even through the Java8
> bugs were fixed soon after 3.1.0 was released.
>
>  I think this would be easy to do if we keep three branches going for
> versions 4.0.1 (bug fixes only), 4.1.0 (backwards-compatible features
> only), and 5.0.0 (major api changes). Pull requests should be made to the
> appropriate branch, and changes can always be merged to a higher level
> (e.g. the 5.0.0 should always contain all commits from the 4.1.0 branch).
>
>  Branches could be named pre4.0.1, pre4.1.0, master; or perhaps patch,
> minor, master (to match semantic versioning levels).
>
>  What do people think? Would the ease of making patch releases and minor
> releases be worth the burden of the added complexity?
>
>  -Spencer
>
>
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