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[Jesus Cea]

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On 02/02/11 18:38, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>> I guess the best workflow would be for the Release Manager to create a
>> clone, keeping the development repository open while the RM checks the
>> clone and "cherry pick" changesets from the development branch if needed.
> 
> That sounds like a full-time job for the poor Release Manager. We really
> need to merge changesets *ourselves*. It is irresponsible to expect
> someone else to do the grunt job of merging stuff.

The merge here is mostly automatic. In fact, if the RM doesn't change
his/her clone at all, the merge is "null", even if devel repository has
evolved a lot in the meantime.

The cost of the merge will be, usually, proportional to the "private"
changesets done in the clone. If the only patches applied there are
"backports" from the main development line (that is, backport to
candidate release from the mainline), those "doesn't count" to the
complexity.

Ideally, a release candidate clone would have very few patches, and most
of them coming from the main development (or main branch line).

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