[U-Boot-Custodians] Branches other than "master" ?

[Daniel Schwierzeck]

Hi Tom,

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 5:39 PM Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> While thinking about making use of the "next" branch of the main tree
> more often, and perhaps similar to how linux-next is used, I was looking
> at http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/CustodianGitTrees again.  This talks
> about both "next" and "testing" branches.  Does anyone make use of
> "next" or "testing" branches today?  If so, are they rebased, or not?  I
> want to make sure that if I make any changes to a top-level branch name
> policy it's consistent throughout and won't cause problems.  Thanks!
>

I usually use a "next" branch for patches which missed the merge
window or which are generally scheduled for the next release. If
necessary due to dependencies, I ask submitters to rebase their series
to that branch during the review process. And I regularily rebase the
"next" branch to mainline (usually after you create new -rc tags).

To mimic linux-next, how about creating a Gitlab CI job to
automatically merge "for-next" branches from all custodian trees on a
daily schedule to detect merge conflicts or build errors early and
before the merge window opens?

-- 
- Daniel