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Re: Repositories and workflow

 

How do we think about small 1 commit fixes? Should these first be pushed
to next? Do we have a buildbot testing the next branch?

Johan

On 04/23/2013 10:06 PM, Anders Logg wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> A couple of developers told me last week they were waiting for the
> dust to settle before jumping in and working actively with the new
> code repositories. I think the dust has now settled (with yet another
> rewrite of the FFC repository yesterday) and it's safe to jump in.
> 
> As before, please read up on
> 
>    http://git-scm.com/book
>    https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitworkflows.html
>    https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/wiki/developer-instructions-git
> 
> One thing I would suggest now is that core developers publish branches
> they intend to merge as part of the main repositories (as opposed to
> storing them in personal repositories). It makes it easier for others
> to follow the development. Note e.g. that PETSc has 66 branches at the
> moment. Examples would be the UFL repository which could have the
> following branches:
> 
>   master
>   next
>   martinal/subdomains
>   martinal/signatureopt
>   logg/tuplenotation ;-)
> 
> Issues we still need to discuss (please jump in) are:
> 
> - Moving questions to stackexchange (comment on previously suggested
>   instructions)
> 
> - Updating the information on the web pages (please help out)
> 
> --
> Anders
> 
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