[asterisk-dev] Branching in the Testsuite

[Kevin Harwell]

I went ahead and created an issue to track this:

https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27492

Feel free to add comments or suggestions on the issue as well.

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Kevin Harwell <kharwell at digium.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> We're thinking about adding a branching system to the Asterisk Testsuite.
> Each branch would be named the same as, and correspond to, an Asterisk
> branch. So for instance the following branches would probably be created:
>
> 13, 14, 15
>
> For each release of Asterisk we will also create a tag in the Testsuite
> that corresponds to that release's tag. That way someone could checkout
> both tags for easy testing
>
> Other advantages? Most all, if not all, the current versioning stuff found
> in the Testsuite could go away, or be safely ignored moving forward. The
> versioning has become a bit cumbersome especially when you have to make a
> backward incompatible change to a test. Moving the version control out of
> the Testsuite and into a version control system should alleviate the need
> for this moving forward.
>
> Please let us know your thoughts and considerations on moving forward with
> this model. Especially any potential pitfalls or problems you might see
> with it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
>
> Kevin Harwell
> Digium, Inc. | Software Developer
> 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA
> Check us out at: http://digium.com & http://asterisk.org
>
>


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Kevin Harwell
Digium, Inc. | Software Developer
445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA
Check us out at: http://digium.com & http://asterisk.org
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