Personally I see this as a pragmatic versus correct discussion. To me, once you release a final you should create it's branch. The pragmatism comes from the fact that following this "correct" approach causes a lot of "extra work" (extra until there is an actual deviation).
I regularly do this too early in ORM and tend to regret it. I'd lean towards being pragmatic personally, but of course I don't have a horse in this race.. On Thu, Nov 5, 2015, 8:24 AM Gunnar Morling <gun...@hibernate.org> wrote: > 2015-11-05 15:11 GMT+01:00 Sanne Grinovero <sa...@hibernate.org>: > > Hi, > > I realize it was a mistake to create it that soon, but it's too late > > now: we have contributions being developed from that branch. > > Who, where? I don't see any branch off 5.5 on GH. As said the branches > are identical, so even if someone has developed off 5.5, it's trivial > to rebase. > > > > > Keep in mind 5.5 will definitely need long term maintenance as it's > > the version picked for integration in WildFly 10 and all depending > > platforms, so it's not that there's any chance to avoid this branch as > > might sometimes have happened in the past. > > The good news: as long as they don't really diverge, applying a PR to > > both is absolutely trivial. > > Only it creates useless work right now. Just see this discussion for > instance ;) > > > > > One thing I don't buy: why is it confusing? > > Personally I find having to maintain two identical branches confusing. > In the sense "WTH are we doing this". > > > This is exactly the same > > process we've followed since many years, since ever we moved to Git. > > Just normally we'll create it a bit later, as needed.. no big deal, > > other than normally you might have to reopen closed JIRAs to fix the > > versions. This might even sound better in that regard, and "as needed" > > doesn't apply as we'll need this for sure. > > Sure, I understand it will be needed at *some point*, but it is not now. > > > > > Thanks, > > Sanne > > > > On 5 November 2015 at 08:46, Hardy Ferentschik <ha...@hibernate.org> > wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 08:46:45AM +0100, Gunnar Morling wrote: > >>> Sanne, all, > >>> > >>> Could we please drop the 5.5 branch in the upstream repo. It matches > >>> exactly master (apart from the POM versions), so there is really no > >>> good reason to have it at this point IMHO. > >> > >> +1 > >> > >> --Hardy > >> _______________________________________________ > >> hibernate-dev mailing list > >> hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > > _______________________________________________ > > hibernate-dev mailing list > > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
