[Koha-devel] BibLibre strategy for Koha 3.4 and next versions

[Chris Cormack]

On 22 June 2010 07:40, Paul Poulain <paul.poulain at biblibre.com> wrote:
> Le 21/06/2010 20:44, Chris Cormack a écrit :
>> This is certainly a possible plan of action, but no, I won't be
>> pushing any patches to master without them going through QA.
>> Certainly not 450 in one go. They will need to be branched into
>> smaller feature sets and each one tested and merged. What I am willing
>> to do, is be less strict about accompanying tests as the patches were
>> written before that, what I am not willing to do is merge 450 patches
>> that haven't been looked at by QA or the Release Manager into master.
>> These aren't new rules.
> 1- we did a lot of QA on them, and although there may be some remaining
> bugs, we are live with them on 1 site, very soon on a second one, and
> many more.
> 2- we proposed to submit those patches many months ago, but galen
> decision was : "feature freeze for 3.2". We had to go ahead.
> 3- we will deal with any problem that may arise. And if 3.4 has to be
> released in something like 6 months, that's enough, undoubtfully
> 4- splitting them in smaller feature set is a more than huge work. It's
> probably almost impossible.
>
> So, even if your proposition is a good idea, I think it's not a possible
> way to go for us. You're reaching our (BibLibre) limit. So, if someone
> is volunteering for this more-than-huge job, then, fair, head to
> git.biblibre.com/master, it's here, available, all commits comments are
> in english. But you can't count on us to do that, even if I'm sorry, really.
>
>
Well we will have to come up with some solution, they have not been
tested with current master (like you say, they are 100 patches behind)
and they will undoubtedly introduce bugs, this is no reflection on
Biblibre, everyones code contains bugs, it is almost a mathematical
impossibility that 450 patches will merge bug free.

I will push them up into a new/biblibre-patches branch, and from there
work can be done to isolate, test and merge them in managable chunks.
We simply can't merge 450 patches now and not expect to make our lives
much much harder in the future. I'm willing to work on making smaller
feature sets, it will help a lot if the commit messages relate to bugs
in bugzilla, that will make making them much easier, if not I will be
asking Biblibre lots of questions.

Also friendly :)

Chris