[yt-dev] Branches post 3.0

[Matthew Turk]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 4:18 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi everyone,
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>> Yesterday during the doc sprint, the question of what to do about
>> branches post-3.0 came up.  Currently there are three branches, which
>> correspond to different names on the front page of the yt homepage.
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>>  * Stable => The branch into which bug fixes are merged, but not a lot
>> of active development occurs.
>>  * yt => The 2.x development branch, which has slowed almost to a halt
>>  * yt-3.0 => The 3.0 development branch
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>> It seems there is broad consensus that after the release, the yt-3.0
>> branch would be merged into the yt branch.  (I would like to hold off
>> on "closing" the yt-3.0 branch for a while, however.)
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> Why is that?
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Because until we get to the point that every developer has issued PRs
for all of their yt-3.0 development, we're going to have multiple
instances of "closing yt-3.0".  Because it's decentralized, we can't
force all, everywhere, to be closed.

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>> But, what is
>> then to be done about the "stable" branch?  My thought was:
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>>  * stable => will be on 2.x for at least one release, until 3.1
>>  * yt => 3.0
>>  * yt-3.0 => we try to migrate development onto the yt branch, which
>> is 3.0, but don't force yet
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> I'd be -1 on having bugfixes for 3.0 on two branches.
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>> The alternate idea was:
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>>  * stable => 3.0
>>  * yt => 3.0
>>  * yt-3.0 => closed
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> I'd prefer this, possibly with another named branch named "legacy" that
> contains 2.x.
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>> I think we need a longer migration time for 2.x, though.  I will
>> update YTEP-0008 with whatever we come up with, but is there a strong
>> opinion for either of these options?  Option 1: stable stays 2.x for
>> now, Option 2, stable becomes 3.0.
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>> -Matt
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