On 07/31/13 08:43 AM, Marco Bonardo wrote: > On 31/07/2013 13:14, Ben Hearsum wrote: >> On 07/31/13 05:54 AM, Marco Bonardo wrote: >>> Now, maybe I'm wrong, but IIRC this is what we had before the rapid >>> release, and we switched away from that cause: >> >> Releases have always had their own repositories (see >> https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.1 and similar). We used to >> have named branches in mozilla-central for specific Betas, but they were >> quite short lived. Maybe that's what you're thinking of? >> > > IIRC we also used to add named branches before spawning the separate > repositories, and periodically someone was taking care of trimming old > named branches, cause there were too many and it was becoming confusing > for everyone to find the right ones. > I recall that multi-branch approach being quite a bad experience, at > least for me.
These were named branches for every beta (eg 3.0b1). We still have those, actually, but only in mozilla-beta, mozilla-release and ESR repositories. I can definitely see how this would be confusing/painful for developers. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
