Should we rename the MASTER forest?

[Neal Gafter]

On Nov 8, 2007 3:52 PM, Mark Reinhold <mr at sun.com> wrote:

> > But as Neal points out, witht the main repository continuing forward,
> > the engineers don't sit on their hands (or on private, untested
> > workspaces) because management wants a release.  (I think the allocation
> > of testing resources is an orthogonal issue, but I understand QA's
> > reluctance to test individual engineer workspaces.)
>
> It's not an orthogonal issue.  In the past we've delayed the creation of
> master workspaces for new feature releases precisely because QA resources
> weren't available to do the PIT (pre-integration testing) runs needed to
> qualify changegroups for integration into the master.  That's been
> interpreted by some as a message not to do any development work; I've
> never quite understood why.


The alternative is for everyone to hold the changes in our private or group
workspaces, and suffer integration hell when a real master workspace finally
arrives.
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