[oe] Preparing for release - Freeze on master

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:25 AM, Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl> wrote:
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> On 17-11-10 10:56, Graeme Gregory wrote:
>> On 17/11/2010 09:12, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>> On 16-11-10 19:20, Khem Raj wrote:
>>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>>> In order to get to the 2010.12 release, I would like to request to
>>>> stop pushing any changes to master until release. Please keep your
>>>> changes in you local tree ready for when the window
>>>> opens again after the release.
>>>
>>> At OEDEM we agreed that the release would pick a tested branch tag to
>>> avoid such a draconic freeze.
>>>
>> I must say I am puzzled why the freeze when git supports branches. In
>> the past we have just picked a point branched then cherry picked
>> anything interesting that went into org.openemedded.dev until release date.
>
> At OEDEM we decided that the release would be a tag, not branch of .dev.
> To make this release easy and unobtrusive the release team would pick a
> tag of the tested stuff that they thought is best. So the december
> release might actually use a tag from september if that proves to be the
> most "stable".

well. if thats the case then I guess there is not much to be done isn't it.
we just convert a tag into release tag. I was trying to cover more
than what we usually
test on weekly bases in coming couple of tags. Should we create a release branch
before we release and solidify that ? and how many of us would be
willing to help there
if there are not many then it would not work.

>
> I would think our normal commit policy would cover "dangerous" commits
> already, so I object to this draconion freeze proposal.
>

No, commits happen without review and they break stuff for others its
an ongoing thing which is OK for a dev branch
but can be a problem when we are trying to release. This is a minimize
that effect until release.

> regards,
>
> Koen
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