Stable branches for server and API: yes.
(prerequisite to this is a way of thoroughly testing these components,
which we don't currently have.
How about if people start discussing this?)
Separate branch for TBD: no.
TBD has its own completely separate repo.
It requires some features in BOINC (such as keywords)
which are of general utility beyond TDB.
-- David
On 7/20/2017 10:34 AM, Richard Haselgrove wrote:
I think this sort of discussion is exactly what I was thinking of when I asked in
my initial working group paper (Christian, please copy to Bernd and Oliver, and
explain the background - if you haven't already), when I asked something like:
What is the current status of BOINC? Is it a computer science experiment, or is it
mature scientific infrastructure?
To me, as a relative outsider and not a technical expert at your levels, it feels
as if "throw everything into master and see if it floats" is the experimentalist's
answer. I hope I'm not distorting your words too much if I suggest that the
'mature infrastructure' approach - if it is to survive the next 15 years - needs
pre-release development branches for each of client, server, and API, all with
their own distinct version control; and a separate branch for major direction
changes like the NSF-funded TBD (which I suspect - though it wasn't made explicit
at the time of the commit - is what really sparked this thread off).
On Thursday, 20 July 2017, 16:12, Oliver Bock <[email protected]> wrote:
On 20/07/17 11:11 , Oliver Bock wrote:
> If you don't adapt and progress it
> can only get worse, in particular from the point of view of newly
> interested scientists and contributors.
Just in case this came across in an offending way: the "you" wasn't
meant personally, it was meant as in "one" or referring to BOINC as a
project. Sorry if I phrased this ambiguously in my non-native tongue.
Oliver
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