[Bf-committers] blender2.8 branch being taken too lightly (imho)

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

No stepping toes here. Branches should just always work, especially the ones more people work on together.
It's a good habit to never commit code that breaks things. And if that's inevitable, align the other coders to help fixing it with highest priority. Or ifdef things out.

Luca: so, if yo notice someone committing code that breaks things, just notify the person immediate. He/she is not meant to do this without general approval.

Laters,

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
Chairman Blender Foundation, Director Blender Institute
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> On 23 Feb 2017, at 07:58, Luca Rood <dev at lucarood.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey,
> 
> I don't mean to cross any lines here, but I feel that this is important to be said.
> 
> As far as I'm aware, the blender2.8 branch is supposed to replace master eventually, and much of the development has moved there already.
> Also, the word seems to be to keep blender2.8 stable, within reason.
> 
> With that in mind, it seems logical to take just as much care of blender2.8 as master. This is one of our main development branches, and shouldn't be treated as lightly as one's personal branch or such.
> 
> Despite that, and especially with the OpenGL immediate mode work going on, we continue getting commits that break Blender because of simple negligence.
> For instance, often the UI gets mangled, or we even get segfaults because of simple OpenGL mistakes, that could easily be avoided if the code was actually tested at all.
> 
> I think everyone would appreciate it if we all tested our code before pushing it, to avoid at least the most obvious mistakes (a successful build does not always mean that stuff actually works :P ).
> So this is just a reminder for everyone to please test stuff before submitting (at least a little bit...)
> 
> Again, I mean this just as a friendly observation :)
> If I'm wrong about my interpretation of the purpose of the blender2.8 branch, please let me know.
> 
> Happy coding,
> 
> Luca
> 
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