Re: gEDA-user: test repo

[Russell Dill <Russ.Dill@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Bert Timmerman <bert.timmerman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Russell,
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Russell Dill
>> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 10:21 PM
>> To: gEDA user mailing list
>> Cc: geda-user@xxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: test repo
>>
>> >> with one checked-out version you know works, or maintain your own
>> >> bugfix branch. ÂGit head is where development happens, and
>> when we're
>> >> bringing in big changes, stuff breaks.
>> >
>> > This is why other projects like KiCAD provide a dedicated
>> testing repo.
>> > Debian even has four stages (experimental, unstable,
>> testing and stable).
>> > By the way, stuff also breaks with small changes. See the first
>> > commits of the new layer selector.
>>
>> gEDA PCB's developer and testing community is much smaller
>> than Debian's. I don't know about a size comparison to KiCAD.
>> The only way bugs can be fixed is by someone finding that
>> it's broken in the first place. I fear that not only would
>> the developer resources be there to maintain two separate
>> branches, but the testing resources wouldn't be there either.
>> Out of all the people testing on git HEAD, I think only you
>> managed to find the large silk bug. This model is used with
>> quite a bit of success in linux kernel development with the
>> linux-next tree, so who knows, maybe it does have a place.
>>
>> I think the only way this gets solved is the suggestion that
>> someone made of someone tagging "semi-stable" versions. Bug
>> fix patches could be back-ported to those and at some point
>> the branch could be abandoned for a newer semi-stable
>> version. The nice thing about this solution is that it can
>> easily scale based on how many people are willing to help
>> maintain the various semi-stable branch points and don't
>> depend on the core developers doing anything. Someone with a
>> big enough itch to scratch could put something up on github today.
>>
>>
>
> Some of us have been there, done just that, and for some time:
>
> https://github.com/fruoff/pcb-fruoff.git
>
> https://github.com/jaredcasper/pcb.git
>
> https://github.com/peter-b/geda-gaf.git
>
> https://github.com/bert/pcb.git
>
> And maybe some more I didn't notice.
>

(Note, clip the .git for the web interface)

I don't see any branching or tagging on any of these that would
indicate maintenance of stable branches. Also, if someone was doing
this, it'd be nice of them to send out an announcement each time they
made a new stable branch point.


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