[Biojava-dev] Post-release branches

[Douglas Myers–Turnbull]

I support this completely. Alternate names are "stable"/"release" (4.0),
"dev" (4.1), and "next" (5.0). The name "master" is pretty generic and
might be misleading.

Douglas

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 7:16 AM, Andreas Prlic <andreas at sdsc.edu> wrote:

> +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.
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> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 5:40 AM, Jose Manuel Duarte <jose.duarte at psi.ch>
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>>  +1
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>> Sounds like a good idea, if people are familiar enough with git that
>> should not be very demanding.
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>> Regarding naming I like the "patch, minor, master" suggestion. Like that
>> the branch names will stay stable for any version.
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>> Jose
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>> On 30.01.2015 14:14, Spencer Bliven wrote:
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>>   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.
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>>  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).
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>>  Branches could be named pre4.0.1, pre4.1.0, master; or perhaps patch,
>> minor, master (to match semantic versioning levels).
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>>  What do people think? Would the ease of making patch releases and minor
>> releases be worth the burden of the added complexity?
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>>  -Spencer
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