Re: [Jython-dev] Creating a maintenance branch

[Adam B. <ada...@gm...>]

I’d agree with ensuring “main” is a branch that always builds, and following the updated naming convention, as you suggest.

Adam

> 在 2021年1月17日，下午7:02，Jeff Allen <ja...@fa...> 写道：
> 
> If we were to follow CPython practice, as we try to, we would create a 2.7 maintenance branch on GitHub and continue development of new features on "master". Actually, we would have done that some time ago.
> 
> I propose to do something slightly different as there are some complications:
> 
> 1. This is a major version change, which is a special case. (What I
>   described is for when the minor version changes.)
> 2. The 3.x code base starts "functionally empty", by which I mean
>   Jython 2 code is present but not compiled. This may be confusing for
>   anyone landing on the repo.
> 3. There is a fashion now to call the default branch "main" rather than
>   "master" and renaming has been facilitated at GitHub
>   (https://github.com/github/renaming).
> 
> The slightly different thing I propose is:
> 
> 1. Create a branch called "main" at a point a little after 2.7.2 (and
>   after recovery from the history corruption Jim spotted). This is the
>   developement branch, but you have to select it specifically.
> 2. After a delay, rename "master" to 2.7. (Branch "master" on your
>   local repo still points to this. PRs against "master" at that point
>   re-target to "2.7" and it is still the default. See link.)
> 3. Once Jython 3 on "main" looks credible as an alpha, make "main" the
>   default branch.
> 
> I'm saying this here in case anyone has a reason why it's terrible idea.
> 
> Jeff
> 
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> Jeff Allen
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