Remi, 

couple of questions on the branching part - when we take the Feature PR and 
Feature is back in Master, feel like we are potentially destabilizing Master ?  
 I know, currently we push changes to master even before anything is tested 
fully - agree, we are now running the Travis test before a checkin - however, I 
feel those are not sufficient ?  

IMHO - we should take a release branch open it up for PR/checkins and once the 
testing is done the branch gets into Master - we take RC from the master and 
release it.  That way no one checkins to master and constantly tested changes 
get into/merged to master.  

I remember seeing similar changes proposed by few folks... I have been little 
out of touch on those changes.

best,
Raja
-----Original Message-----
From: Rajani Karuturi [mailto:raj...@apache.org] 
Sent: Friday, July 3, 2015 8:00 AM
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Release principles for Apache CloudStack

I do not agree to backporting aka cherry picking. I prefer forward merges(tofu 
scale) 4.4 to 4.5 to master etc.
That way, none of the changes will be missed and git branch --contains gives a 
nice view of where all the changes went.


On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 23:16 PM, Remi Bergsma <r...@remi.nl> wrote:

Hi Daan,

Indeed. I prefer committing to master first, as it will ensure everything ends 
up there (unless some specific use cases). Currently, we have the risk of 
forgetting to include a fix to a release branch back to master.

When we reverse it, some bug fix that should end up in the x.y branch, is 
committed to master, then also applied (or reimplemented) to x.y. If you then 
only take one of the two steps, there is no issue as it will be in master only 
(and people will notice). In the other situation, when we accept a PR to x.y 
and forget to merge back, we possibly introduce regression bugs.

I will update the diagram and wiki later tonight.

While reviewing PRs, let’s be alert to see PRs not pointed towards master and 
at least discuss it.

Regards,
Remi


> On 2 jul. 2015, at 16:54, Daan Hoogland <daan.hoogl...@gmail.com
<javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Remi Bergsma <r...@remi.nl 
> <javascript:;>>
wrote:
>> Since the goal is a stable master, I’d say the bug fix should go to
master first.
>
>
> Remi, this means that merge back of the branch makes no sense anymore.
>
> --
> Daan



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