[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 3/3] docs/releasing: Add note about using a staging branch

[Juan A. Suarez Romero]

On Wed, 2018-05-23 at 09:50 -0700, Dylan Baker wrote:
> Quoting Juan A. Suarez Romero (2018-05-22 00:04:07)
> > For the first two patches in the series:
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Juan A. Suarez <jasuarez at igalia.com>
> > 
> > 
> > For the 3rd patch, I'm fine with the proposal, but  I would like to know the
> > feedback from others. 
> > 
> > In my case, for instance, I'm already using a staging branch, but in a
> > completely different repository (on GitHub), as our CI integrates better here
> > than with the freedesktop repository, and I have more freedom to
> > add/remove/squash/reorder commits as I need in the branch.
> > 
> > But as I said, I'm fine with pushing those changes also to the staging branch in
> > the freedesktop repository (does it allow to force push?).
> > 
> > 
> 
> I guess I should clarify what I meant here. There should be a publicly available
> branch that is updated periodically. The branch I'm using is in my mesa clone of
> fdo, the real point of this is to allow others to see what's in the branch and
> allow CI and QA teams the ability to test incrementally, instead of getting a
> tarball and having to report "Well, that's completely broken". I added this
> because I know you (Igalia) are doing this, and I've been doing this, and it's
> a huge help for Mark and Clayton since they can quickly see if something is
> failing.
> 

Thanks for the explanation. FWIW, I also agree to have such branch, so you have
my Rb for this patch too.


	J.A.

> Dylan