Re: integration and master divergence

For those who prefer to test it against the compiled frameworks:

  http://jenkins.wocommunity.org/view/Wonder/job/WonderReleaseCandidate/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/Root/Roots/

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> Release Candidate branch is named 'rc-wonder-5.7.0'. Associated pull request (for discussion, etc.) is here https://github.com/projectwonder/wonder/pull/243
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> Those who are interested can check out the 'rc-wonder-5.7.0' branch. Test it with your apps/frameworks. If you find a bug, fix it. No committed bug fixes by Aug 1st will result in it getting merged to master :-)
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> And yeah, contributors without direct commit access to wonder can do a pull request for bug fixes with the rc-wonder-5.7.0 branch as the target - just make sure the bug fix is based on that branch.
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> This is a temporary branch and it will be deleted once merged to master and the final merge commit will be tagged as wonder-5.7.0
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> Cheers, Kieran
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> On Jul 18, 2012, at 11:12 AM, Jesse Tayler wrote:
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>> 
>> so, we'll use a few volunteer guinea pig users as a live-regression test suite!
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>> seriously, we need to push harder on updates, and getting changes pushed through to all the sites and developers.
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>> clearly there are risks involved with this, everyone is going to have to update along with their own sense of safety.
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>> I know we have put some tests in place, but of course - tests never pick up the issues you really want.
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>> not to mention, every project has different safety concerns and most projects make use of only parts of WOnder.
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>> Plus, our resources will never be so perfect as to just spend time on these things.
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>> I heartily second the notion that we might produce a time-based automated stage (two weeks seems fine to me) if there were a few low level projects, some developer systems and various users willing to be on that trunk - it would likely weed out any significant bugs or errors before the code reaches those who really don't want their build to break in ways they don't understand.
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>> my two cents.
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>> On Jul 18, 2012, at 6:12 AM, Pascal Robert <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> 
>>> Le 2012-07-18 à 05:45, Maik Musall a écrit :
>>> 
>>>> Hi Kieran,
>>>> 
>>>> Am 17.07.2012 um 19:22 schrieb Kieran Kelleher:
>>>>> The original plan with integration was that commits that survived for at least a month in integration without
>>>>> breakage or bugs would be deemed worthy of merging to master.
>>>> 
>>>>> If all goes well, this merge will be shifted to master and then we can from then on ONLY merge integration commits that are a month old PERIODICALLY (1-4 weeks intervals).
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> As I see it, master should be a stable thing that production apps can rely on. That requires two premises:
>>>> 
>>>> 1. An integration test of the periodic merge to make sure everything works fine with everything else after merging stuff that nobody was running in exactly that combination before.
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>>> Right now, the test is that most of us are using integration branch. Most Wonder committers use integration as their primary branch, and I know that other people use it to.
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>>>> 2. Some sort of version number to tag each release, so that it will be possible for everyone who experiences problems in production can easily switch back to the previous master release. Every other framework out there has version numbers that make it possible to refer to a specific release.
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>>> Already done. All commits done in master, except a couple of small ones, coming from integration have been tagged.
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>>> https://github.com/projectwonder/wonder/tags
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>>> We even have a change log for master:
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>>> https://github.com/projectwonder/wonder/wiki/Changelog 
>>> 
>>>> What do you think?
>>>> 
>>>> Maik
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