[petsc-dev] does next model mess up our histories

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 2 Oct 2014, Jed Brown wrote:

> Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
> > I think is ok to be a bit more messy in next. Sure there is a tradeoff
> > - but you get better debugging in master :)
> 
> If bugs make it to 'master', the process has failed.

If we have to do patch releases - the process has failed?

Satish

> The purpose of 'next' is quality control.  We only care about the
> history in 'next' so long as it makes that job easier/more reliable.