Hello, Christopher Baines <m...@cbaines.net> writes:
[...] >> Does the following doc addition makes sense? I've placed it at the end >> of the 'Managing Patches and Branches' section: >> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) >> doc/contributing.texi | 11 +++++++++++ >> >> modified doc/contributing.texi >> @@ -2362,6 +2362,17 @@ Managing Patches and Branches >> Once the branch has been merged, the issue should be closed and the >> branch deleted. >> >> +@cindex work-in-progress branches, wip >> +@cindex wip branches >> +Sometimes, branches may be a work in progress, for example, for larger >> +efforts such as updating the GNOME desktop. For such cases, the branch >> +name should reflect this by having the ``wip-'' prefix. The QA >> +infrastructure will avoid building work-in-progress branches, so that >> +the available resources can be better focused on building the branches >> +that are ready to me merged. When the branch is not longer a work in >> +progress, it should be renamed, with the ``wip-`` prefix removed, and >> +only then should the merge requests be created, as documented earlier. >> + >> @node Debbugs User Interfaces >> @subsection Debbugs User Interfaces >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > Yep, sounds reasonable. Great, I've fixed a few typos and pushed as 097de97982f328a79394b197d3836842bcfbac44. -- Thanks, Maxim
