Rajani, we can't cut a new master from 4.4 Leo's work on comparing the branches showed us that. So the new flow will be limited To master land 4.5+
biligual spelling checker used.read at your own risk Op 31 jul. 2014 06:22 schreef "Rajani Karuturi" <rajani.karut...@citrix.com >: > For the git flow: > 1. We agreed to follow git-flow explained here > http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ > 2. This is the proposal for first cut > 2a. rename 'master' to 'develop’ > 2b. branch a new 'master' from ‘4.4’ and update tags with release/4.4.0 > 2c. branch ‘release/4.5' from the develop > 2d. merge ‘release/4.5' to master once the release voting is done. > 3. This would be the flow for a hot fix > 3a. branch off from the release tag on master. in this case it would be > release/4.4.0 > 3b. commit the fixes in hotfix/4.4.1 > 3c. do the release > 3d. merge to develop > 3e. merge to master and update tags > 3f. delete hot fix branch > 4. for any LTS release create a support branch when required using > git-flow support > 4a. http://stackoverflow.com/a/16866118/201514 > > using the git-flow git extension available at > https://github.com/nvie/gitflow can reduce the number of commands/errors > > In addition: > 1. Every commit should have unit tests > 2. every feature/merge request should have unit and marvin integration > tests > 3. A commit should not have check style or find bugs issues > 4. any coverity issues reported in the new code should be addressed > immediately > 5. every developer should run the BVT on the simulator before doing a > checkin ( > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Validating+check-ins+for+your+local+changes%2C+using+Simulator > < > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Validating+check-ins+for+your+local+changes,+using+Simulator > >) > (This I am not very sure. May be we should let jenkins handle it and > report integration failures if any?) > Please add/amend if I missed anything. > > Can we call for a vote on this and freeze this without further delay? > > > ~Rajani > > > >