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From: Felix Lechner via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Discussion notes on releases and branches
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2023 08:24:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFHYt55dZz_T4pwvVefEwbFEH-j9RQpkZEwNLcQ9RJUZax9R5w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y+Tk0OKTyKKDqqlm@jurong>

Hi Andreas,

On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 4:20 AM Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> wrote:
>
> [excerpt from the attachment follows]
>
> - Smaller branches could be taken care of by dedicated persons
> [...]
> - Branch creators should fix a goal and tentative timeline.
> - We need a mapping between branches and maintainers responsible
>   for the merge.

Instead of dividing similar tasks among many people with different
priorities, I would appoint a "feature branch manager" (or perhaps,
chief pruner).

That person's job would be to keep an eye on the number of feature
branches on Savannah so they do not grow stale, or out of control.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-03-17 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-09 12:19 Discussion notes on releases and branches Andreas Enge
2023-02-12 21:13 ` Moving forward with teams and feature branches (was: Discussion notes on releases and branches) Josselin Poiret
2023-02-12 21:34   ` Andreas Enge
2023-02-13  9:32   ` Time for RFC? (was Re: Moving forward with teams and feature branches (was: Discussion notes on releases and branches)) zimoun
2023-02-13 14:04   ` bug#61475: Staging branch (was: Moving forward with teams and feature branches) Andreas Enge
2023-05-10  2:55     ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-02-13 14:07   ` Moving forward with teams and feature branches (was: Discussion notes on releases and branches) Andreas Enge
2023-02-14 19:12     ` Leo Famulari
2023-02-13  9:22 ` Release (was " Simon Tournier
2023-02-14 10:14 ` Rust team branch " Efraim Flashner
2023-02-14 16:36   ` Rust team branch Andreas Enge
2023-02-14 20:07     ` Efraim Flashner
2023-02-16 10:56       ` Andreas Enge
2023-02-14 16:36   ` Rust team branch (was Re: Discussion notes on releases and branches) Katherine Cox-Buday
2023-02-14 20:08     ` Efraim Flashner
2023-02-15 17:49       ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2023-03-17 15:24 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. [this message]
2023-03-18 17:42   ` Discussion notes on releases and branches Leo Famulari

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