<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Thierry Carrez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thierry@openstack.org" target="_blank">thierry@openstack.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Mark Washenberger wrote:<br>
> [...]<br>
<div class="im">> In order to mitigate that risk, I think it would make a lot of sense to<br>
> have a place to stage and carefully consider all the breaking changes we<br>
> want to make. I also would like to have that place be somewhere in<br>
> Gerrit so that it fits in with our current submission and review<br>
> process. But if that place is the 'master' branch and we take a long<br>
> time, then we can't really release any bug fixes to the v0 series in the<br>
> meantime.<br>
><br>
> I can think of a few workarounds, but they all seem kinda bad. For<br>
> example, we could put all the breaking changes together in one commit,<br>
> or we could do all this prep in github.<br>
><br>
> My question is, is there a correct way to stage breaking changes in<br>
> Gerrit? Has some other team already dealt with this problem?<br>
</div>> [...]<br>
<br>
It sounds like a case where we could use a feature branch. There have<br>
been a number of them in the past when people wanted to incrementally<br>
work on new features without affecting master, and at first glance<br>
(haha) it sounds appropriate here.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>As a quick sidebar, what does a feature branch entail in today's parlance?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Infra team, thoughts ?<br>
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Thierry Carrez (ttx)<br>
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