On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 17:58:05 +0200 Antonio Ospite ao2@ao2.it wrote:
FWIW I too am in favor of a more "usual" branching model.
Besides, git users kind of expect "master" to be the development branch with all that this entails: e.g. no hard promises on stability, possible risk of regressions compared to the latest tagged release.
flashrom gets compiled by people not knowing what git or master even is following some random tutorial on the internet. The whole purpose of having no master branch is to make everyone aware of the different behavior of the two main branches. For some (including those working with external programmers) staging is fine, for others (e.g. newbies updating their firmware via -p internal for the first time, package maintainers and other rather conservatives) stable is the way to go.
Tags and versioned branches can be used to track and support stable releases long term, and wild experiments can still be done in topic branches, can't they?
Topic branches are a pita in gerrit and get only tested by those interested in the respective feature. Getting such changes into staging would get by far more tested in the wild.