Re: [DISCUSS] When to branch 4.0

2020-06-27 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
> Just a heads up - this comes across as passive aggressive sniping. I'm sure > you didn't mean it as such I think indirect criticism is a normal part of discourse, particularly in public fora where it can be more polite and less disruptive than direct criticism. Ironically, this snippet of yo

Unclear scope in 4.0 tickets and optionality

2020-06-27 Thread Joshua McKenzie
I wanted to kick off a discussion about outstanding tickets scoped for 4.0 that have unclear scope, as well as a few tickets that are currently marked with one of the 4.0 fixversions but that we might want to consider as optional (updating fixversion to 4.x or 4.0.x so they don't show in the JIRA b

Re: [DISCUSS] When to branch 4.0

2020-06-27 Thread Joshua McKenzie
I thought about this a bit more overnight - if I'm arguing that most work would be fast forward merges to trunk if we branched beta due to the type of work going into beta, the inverse argument should hold that most merges into a feature branch would be fast forward or minimal. So I think the basic