[Yt-dev] proposition to close svn-trunk to active development

[Britton Smith]

That's not a bad idea.  Even just a development guidelines page might be
nice.

Britton

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm on board, too.  Trunk should be stable, and a staging ground for
> pushing into a release.  hg can be unstable.  I know I broke this
> policy only hours ago, but I think before a big push back to trunk, we
> should ask for approval and get a second.  I don't mind handling most
> of the merges, but in cases where someone has done a LOT of work, I'll
> happily send out patches -- which is what I did with the last big
> merge, a couple months ago.  For instance, when Stephen's structure
> function goes in, I think he should be the one to 'svn ci' it.
>
> In the next release, which I think may not be very far off, we should
> also document this in the proper docs.  I think adding a "How is yt
> developed?" section to the docs would be good.
>
> -Matt
>
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:17 PM, j s oishi <jsoishi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I heartily second this.
> >
> > j
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hi guys,
> >>
> >> It seems that most of yt development has migrated away from the
> svn-trunk to
> >> the various mercurial branches.  Like most of you guys, I imagine, I am
> now
> >> using the main hg branch of yt almost exclusively, since that's where
> >> everything new that I need gets put right away.  It's rare, but every
> now
> >> and then something goes straight into the svn trunk without passing
> through
> >> hg.
> >>
> >> Just to make it official, I would like to propose that the svn-trunk not
> be
> >> used for any active development, but only a staging area for updates
> coming
> >> from the hg branch and destined for a release version.  This way, we
> don't
> >> run into the issue of having to merge changes in two directions between
> svn
> >> and hg, which I think is a bit of a pain.  I get the impression that
> almost
> >> all development is taking place in hg already, but I think it may be
> >> beneficial to have an official policy on how this sort of thing should
> be
> >> done.
> >>
> >> Thoughts, anybody?
> >>
> >> Britton
> >>
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