[Soc-2011-dev] GSoc Branches Suggestion

[Jason Wilkins]

While having a combined branch would almost certainly add friction to
a project and slow things down that arguments made here are all sound
and potentially outweigh the added costs.  The biggest hurdle for me
is the initial time required to integrate mine and Nicholas' code, due
to our projects already existing in various states of completion.

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Sean Olson <seanolson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> I know there has been discussion in the weekly meeting about combined
> branches.   Not sure if a consensus has been made on this for sure, but from
> a community/testing perspective, it would be good if there were multiple
> projects per branch.   This might take a little more coordination between
> Gsoc mentors/students, but I believe the end result would be superior.  For
> example, in the last Gsoc, every student had his/her own branch, but many of
> the branches touched on items that would have benefited each other.
>  Nicholas Bishop has great masking tools that would benefit sculpt, and
> Jason Wilkens has great sculpting tools, but we have yet to have a branch
> where both of these tools can be used together, so both are crippled.  The
> proposition is that devs working on tools that could piggy back off of each
> other work in unified branches.
> Additionally, combined branches will allow testers to check more than one
> set of code at a time.  With 17 Gsocs this year it is unlikely that people
> will build 17 different test builds or even download them all.  I think that
> you all will get much better feedback from the community if you combine
> efforts on branches.
> Lastly, from the perspective of experience in the coding world - you will
> rarely be working alone!  Getting experience working on shared code is very
> valuable and good for the resume.   Also, it may help some students that are
> unfamiliar with build systems and other mundane work (no offense to those
> who love working on build systems) the opportunity to 'get into the code'
> faster.
> Here is my personal suggestion of branch organization:
> http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/6040/ss20110508130003.png
> Anyway - just wanted to get this conversation started before everybody got
> too far along in their individual work.
> Good luck on your projects all - you have a lot of people out there VERY
> excited about your work.
> -Sean
>
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