[U-Boot] U-Boot git usage model
Stefan Roese
sr at denx.de
Fri Oct 12 07:29:48 CEST 2012
On 10/11/2012 08:30 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
>> But, yes, it bears more thinking if we want the next branch open for
>> longer than it has historically been, if we want that. And we have at
>> least historically been saying that next can and will be rebased.
>
> IMHO it would be nice for the next branch to open immediately after the
> merge window closes, and be kept up to date except during the merge
> window. Historically the next branch has opened when someone requests
> a pull into it, but how do I make a sane pull request when the next
> branch has been untouched since the last release?
This has been discussed on the U-Boot BoF in Geneva a few months ago.
And it was generally agreed upon that opening the next branch earlier
(best directly after the merge window) would be a big plus.
IIRC, then Tom did exactly this in this release cycle.
Thanks,
Stefan
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