[Pywps-dev] development workflow update

Luís de Sousa luis.a.de.sousa at gmail.com
Wed Feb 10 23:44:25 PST 2016


Hi there Tom,

What are the advantages of merging the two git projects? It seems far
simpler to keep versions 3 and 4 separated.

Luís

On 11 February 2016 at 02:37, Tom Kralidis <tomkralidis at gmail.com> wrote:
> More thoughts:
>
> Given current master and pywps-4 branches have totally different
> commit histories, it is not possible to simply merge pywps-4 into
> master via GitHub pull request.  One option we could consider is using
> the "ours" merge strategy:
>
> git checkout pywps-4
> git merge -s ours master
> git checkout master
> git merge pywps-4
> git push -f origin master
>
> This essentially pushes pywps-4 into master branch without wiping out
> master branch history.
>
> ..Tom
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Tom Kralidis <tomkralidis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all: FYI the following have been completed
>> against https://github.com/geopython/pywps:
>>
>> - master branch is up to date
>> - issues / milestones are up to date and represent 3.x and 4.x plans
>> - branch pywps-4 represents our PyWPS 4 effort
>> - branch pywps-3.2 represents our 3.x development.  At this point in time
>> any
>>   fixes in master that apply to 3.x should be also applied to branch
>> pywps-3.2
>> - any further 3.x releases are to built/tagged/released off branch pywps-3.2
>>
>> At some point branch pywps-4 will be merged as master and pywps-3.2 will be
>> our 3.x support branch.  From that point forward, any changes in master
>> should _not_ be applied to branch pywps-3.2 given the backward
>> compability break.
>>
>> I'd like to hear thoughts on pywps-4 -> master efforts and when folks
>> think is a good time to move that over.  The idea here is that we have
>> supported releases (3.2.3) to download or pip install, and master
>> represents development.  Does anyone have any knowledge that master
>> is being used operationally anywhere (which is a bad idea given it's
>> not a release).
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> ..Tom
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