Re: DBD::mysql path forward

Darren Duncan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.dbi.general,gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.dbi.sybase.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 2017-09-13 6:31 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 September 2017 11:32:36 Darren Duncan wrote:
>> Regardless, following point 2, mandate that all Git pull requests are made
>> against the new 5.x master; the 4.x legacy branch would have no commits
>> except minimal back-porting.
>
> New pull requests are by default created against "master" branch. So if
> 5.x development would happen in "master" and 4.x in e.g. "legacy-4.0"
> then no changes is needed.
>
> But on github it is not possible to disallow users to create new pull
> requests for non-default branch. When creating pull request there is a
> button which open dialog to change target branch.

When I said "mandate" I meant as a matter of project policy, not on what GitHub 
enforces.  Strictly speaking there are times where a pull request against the 
legacy branch is appropriate. -- Darren Duncan
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