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hordes of suckers (loyal developers), you have been tricked (chosen) to
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step up as the new maintainer. This howto will show you "how to" do it.
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+ Activities
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+ ----------
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The maintainer's git time is spent on three activities.
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- Communication (45%)
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Scratching my own itch and sending proposed patch series out.
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+ The Policy
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+ ----------
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The policy on Integration is informally mentioned in "A Note
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from the maintainer" message, which is periodically posted to
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this mailing list after each feature release is made.
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- The policy.
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- Feature releases are numbered as vX.Y.Z and are meant to
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contain bugfixes and enhancements in any area, including
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functionality, performance and usability, without regression.
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are found before new topics are merged to 'master'.
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+ A Typical Git Day
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A typical git day for the maintainer implements the above policy
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by doing the following:
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- Push the integration branches out to public places; Meta/pushall
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script may aid this step.
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+ Observations
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Some observations to be made.
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* Each topic is tested individually, and also together with other
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'master' branch typically is.
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- [Appendix]
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Preparing a "merge-fix"
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+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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A merge of two topics may not textually conflict but still have
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conflict at the semantic level. A classic example is for one topic
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