[jira] [Commented] (RYA-164) Move off of Gitflow

["David W. Lotts (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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David W. Lotts commented on RYA-164:
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You can change the default branch from master to another existing branch:

    https://help.github.com/articles/setting-the-default-branch/#

I did it on my fork of Rya.  When the main page and the PR page comes up, it shows the branch "develop" instead of "master".



> Move off of Gitflow
> -------------------
>
>                 Key: RYA-164
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RYA-164
>             Project: Rya
>          Issue Type: Wish
>            Reporter: Aaron Mihalik
>
> Gitflow on an Apache project is a bit annoying.  I propose we follow the pattern of other Apache Projects (eg. NiFi, Spark, Accumulo) and have master (the default branch) contain the latest major release line under development.
> This would have a couple immediate benefits:
> 1. As committers, we have to manually pester contributors to close their pull requests after we merge their PRs.  Instead we can use the GitHub "closes #<issue>" semantics to automatically close the PR after a merge.
> 2. As a community, we would be more aligned with other conventions used in Apache projects.
> 3. As developers, we have to be (slightly) more mindful where we point other developers.  We have to make a point of saying "the 'develop' branch... not that default one"
> (I concede I'm really reaching for the last point :) )



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