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[Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 5:35 PM Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2019-12-11 08:17, Jonatan Liljedahl wrote:
> > Ok, good to hear!
> >
> > How about moving the new symbol inheritance stuff into such a feature
> > branch until it's working? (See
> > https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/issues/3658) I understand it would
> > mean less testing, but in its current state it's impossible to test or
> > work on anything else since kicad keeps crashing.
> >
>
> This will happen sometimes.  We try to avoid it but we can't always
> foresee the crashes, especially with large features.  Frequently the
> crashes are actually due to the difficulty of rebasing and merging the
> branch.
>
...
>
> Asking the development team to keep the development branch bug-free is
> not realistic.  This issue will get resolved.  Until then, please use
> the older revision.

Of course, I'm not expecting the dev branch to be bug-free. I was just
thinking about git branching models and wondering if things could be
improved, specifically about larger feature branches. I didn't know
that the symbol inheritance branch was available for testing from
Waynes personal repo before merge, possibly because I'm new here and
just recently joined the dev-list. I'm sorry if I stepped on any toes!
:)

Hopefully all this will be much easier now with GitLab, where everyone
can see and access available merge requests in a simple way.

I think the trick with feature branches is to rebase against master
very frequently, to avoid a pile of merge conflicts.

> If you are interested in helping test feature branches to minimize the
> crashes in the future, you might test and review the feature branch at
> https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/merge_requests/15 .  It will be
> merged soon but has not had any testing outside of my own at the moment.
>   This is the downside of feature branches in a volunteer-based
> development model.

I will take a look! However, since it's rebased on current master,
which is crashing a lot, it's hard to test and know what broke because
of which change.
When the current issues on master are sorted out and !15 rebased
against it, it will be easier.

Cheers
-- 
/Jonatan
http://kymatica.com