[Koha-devel] Koha 3.8 release schedule & perltidy process

[Chris Cormack]

On Mar 9, 2012 1:59 AM, "Paul Poulain" <paul.poulain at biblibre.com> wrote:
>
> Hello koha-devel,
>
> I just updated the 3.8 release process with the schedule/planning of the
> release: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roadmap_to_3.8
>
> Here it is:
> March, 23th (1 month before the release) = feature freeze.
> April, 6th = strong feature freeze, string freeze
> April 20th = starting release process, everything frozen
> April 23th = release of Koha 3.8.0
>
> IMPORTANT = perltidy process
>
> In january IRC meeting we spoke of perltidy thing. We have a coding
> guideline rule that says code must be perltidied. However, all the
> existing code is not perltidied, and it's hard to mix perltidied and non
> perltidied code.
> Thus, we have investigated the idea of doing a "perltidy big-bang" just
> when releasing 3.8.0, for all the code.
>
> Pro:
> * the code will be perltidied, the coding guideline will be applicable
> * all perltidy being made at the same time, it will be easier to read
> the git log. (One of the argument against perltidying is that it's a
> problem for reading git history)

Doing it in one hit only makes this better if it is possible to have git
blame ignore this commit.

I just want to go on record as disagreeing with this plan. But happy to
abide by community decision I just reserve the right to complain :-)

Chris
> * doing that for a release is better for future bugfixes means that
> patches will apply on 3.8 as well as on master.
>
> Cons:
> * patches that are waiting may become "does not apply" because of the
> perltidy thing
> * patches submitted to fix bugs in 3.8 may not apply on 3.6 easily, that
> will add more work for 3.6 releases.
>
> All in one, our conclusion was that the best solution is to do that
> during a release process.
> So I plan do it during 3.8 release.
>
> (I have a (small ?) question about that : do you think I should make
> only one huge commit with perltidy ? one for each directory ? one for
> each file ?)
>
> --
> Paul POULAIN
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