Re: Branching vs Tagging for release candidates

[Greg Akins]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Todd
Denniston<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I would like to suggest looking at what some of what Brad Appleton has
> documented. It may not give exactly the answers you need, but it will
> probably help you discuss what you want to do with others.

Thanks!  I had read Brad's book a while ago, but wasn't aware of these websites.

> ++ Are you trying to make a release candidate from a mainline that has all
> the functionality that you want for the release, but needs QA and bug fixes.
>

I think this most accurately describes what we are trying to do.
>
> ++ Or Are you trying to make a release candidate that lets folks see
> condition of the current stable state of development?

However, this is an interesting idea that hadn't occurred to me.  It
might allow us to get closer to a "releaseable" version without as
much churn as we wind down toward our release date.  Often the reason
for the churn is that our implementation is so far off what the
business was expecting.

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