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[Janek Kozicki <janek_listy@xxxxx>]

Bruno Chareyre said:     (by the date of Mon, 7 Jan 2019 16:59:53 +0100)

> Daily builds would be based on the develop branch.

good, that answer my question from other mail.
 
> > (by the way, with a tighter control on development, would we still 
> > need a distinction between "yade" and "yadedaily" packages ?..)  
> 
> Yade is stable release, not updated very often, included in main 
> debian/ubuntu repos.
> Yadedaily is updated  more than daily, after each change to the source 
> code, not included in debian/ubuntu repos.
> They are very different things and I think we need both.

agreed.
 
> > Also, with "develop" and "master", I guess any proposal for code 
> > modification would have to be closely examined and validated twice :
> > - once to make it into "develop"
> > - and once, to make it from "develop" into "master"
> > ?...  
> There is no reason to check the develop->master merge if everything in 
> develop is already validated by regtests + human review.
> Our github/master corresponds to "develop" more or less.
> Merging develop into master in the new model would correspond to Anton 
> calling for update and releasing 2018.b. More or less.

agred.

> We probably need a liberal, truly unstable repo on the top of this, at 
> least in a transitory phase, so that everyone can play with gitlab a bit 
> and break everything with no limit. For instance to compare --no-ff, 
> --only-ff, and other variants.

how about calling it experimental ? :-))

And yes, we definitely need something like that.
Where git reset --hard is nothing to be afraid of.

-- 
Janek Kozicki