04-05-2016, 12:47 AM
(04-02-2016, 08:19 PM)PureTryOut Wrote: Why do you have a testing branch anyway?
"Testing" is needed as a bridge between "Master" and "Stable". Stable branches do not come out of thin air. In order to create a stable branch, you copy "master" into "testing", and then you fix most or all of the bugs in "testing" without introducing any new features to "testing", because new features mean new bugs. Once "testing" has very few bugs, it is copied to "stable".
Our problem is that "testing" gets bugs fixed very, very slowly. By the time it is stabilized, it would be years old. So right now, practically, both "testing" and "stable" are unused.
I propose we change the model. We really can't claim to have a "stable" build yet. A more change-welcoming testing along with the existing master would be better than the current model, in my opinion. Then we could put that testing on the homepage.