> On Jan 4, 2021, at 3:42 PM, Owen Nichols <onich...@vmware.com> wrote: > > How to tell whether develop is stable?
Same way we tell if a release branch is stable. Listen, cutting a release branch from the develop branch shouldn’t result in weeks worth of stabilization of the release branch. That is a smell that we have bad things going into develop. If there are bad things in develop then we are introducing new things to develop on top of bad things, which will just end up being more bad things. It isn’t cut or dry. I am not saying release from develop on an arbitrary day. I am saying we know develop isn’t stable. We know a release branch will take weeks to repair. Lets turn that around, lets make develop stable so a release branch takes days to release, not weeks. Yes there will be issues found on a release branch that have to be fixed but that should be an exception, not the norm. -Jake
