Re: wip/system-admin-guide branch

[Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>]

Hi Petr,

On 18 April 2013 16:12, Petr Kovar <pmkovar gnome org> wrote:

For now, we are working on the sysadmin guide in a separate branch called
wip/system-admin-guide. To avoid possible duplication of our effort in the
future, I'd suggest that we all start using the wip/system-admin-guide
branch.

I suggested that Jana work in a branch (which I recommended that she name in a way that made it clear that it was her personal playground) for two reasons:

- She pushed incorrect instructions to master for internal Red Hat builds

- She did not follow the review process

Had these two problems not come up, it would have been correct for her to push directly to master, so the branch would not have existed. Aruna followed the process, which is why I told her to push her changes to master.

It is unfortunate that such a generic name was chosen for the branch as it seems to have lead to some confusion.

 

Before one of the next stable releases (.2/.3?), we can then rebase the
branch on top of master.

Are you OK with this workflow?

 

Do you have a good reason for working this way? Rebasing a branch can take a lot of effort and time. Development should be on master, but it's important that the quality of the documentation is maintained in the process.

On that subject, 3.8.2 is due for release on the 13th of May, which is only 3.5 weeks away, and there has not been much activity in fixing those incorrect instructions that I mentioned earlier. There are even some "accepted - commit now" patches on Bugzilla, waiting to be committed, do you know when these will be looked at?