"Happy-melon" <happy-melon(a)live.com> writes:
Development work done in branches might as well be
left in a working
copy for all the attention it gets
I'm not about to say that development branches get the love and
attention of trunk — just look at the mess we have with with
iwtransclusion branch. Here we are about 9 months later and the GSOC
code is just now being merged. (
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/28673)
We are learning from that mistake, though. I think Sumanah is directing
current GSOC students to work on trunk instead of a branch.
BZ patches doubly so.
I'm watching the front of the bug stream and, usually, when someone
finds bug and provides a patch, I apply it right away. If someone does
that enough (/me waves at Paul Copperman) then we try to get them commit
access.
Of course, things aren't perfect, but hopefully they are getting better.
Mark.