From: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@...>
Date: 2011-11-18T02:36:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:41115] Re: Proposal for sustainable branch maintenance


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On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 03:11:55PM +0900, Yuki Sonoda (Yugui) wrote:
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> Hi,
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> =3D=3D Background
> I have been maintaining ruby_1_9_1 and ruby_1_9_2 branch.
> Ruby 1.9 is now stable as Ruby 1.8 was, but it has not yet reached to
> the bugless nirvana. So Ruby 1.9 needs continuous maintenance.
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> But actually ruby_1_9_1 is no longer well-maintained. My backports to
> ruby_1_9_? tend to be late. There is a bottle-neck.
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> The bottle-neck is review process for commits in trunk.
> A few bug is branch-specific. Most of bugs in Ruby 1.9.x reproduce
> with trunk too. So I rarely need to write a branch specific patch.
> Just backporting from trunk fixes most of bugs in Ruby 1.9.x.
> But I need to read a commit carefully and run unit tests before
> backport the commit. This review process takes really really long.
> That's why patch level releases have been late.
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> =3D=3D Proposal
> Let's parallelize the bottle-neck.
> Review and tests are necessary for stability and compatibility of
> released branches but these processes can be parallelized.
> I propose the following process:
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> * A committer who fixed a bug in trunk should also check if the bug
>   reproduces with other active branches. If reproduces, (s)he should
>   create a backport request on the Redmine.
>   * Or anyone who want us to backport a commit in trunk can create a
>     backport request.
> * Another committer review the request. This reviewer checks if this
>   commit is good enough and backport it to the older branch.
> * Any committer who thinks the backport breaks compatiblity can revert
>   it.
>   * Eventually the maintainer of the branch decides to revert or not.

I would like to try the new system.  :-)

I've submitted a backport request here:

  http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5646

Can someone +1, and I'll merge to the bugfix branch?  Thank you!

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Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/

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