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Maintaining the Neovim project
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Notes on maintaining the Neovim project.
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See also: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt
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Ticket Triage
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In practice we haven't found a meaningful way to forecast more precisely than
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"next" and "after next". That means there are usually one or two (at most)
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planned milestones:
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- Next bugfix-release (1.0.x)
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- Next feature-release (1.x.0)
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The forecasting problem might be solved with an explicit priority system (like
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Bram's todo.txt). Meanwhile the Neovim priority system is defined by:
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- PRs nearing completion (RDY).
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- Issue labels. E.g. the +plan label increases the ticket's priority merely for
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having a plan written down: it is _closer to completion_ than tickets without
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a plan.
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- Comment activity or new information.
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Anything that isn't in the next milestone, and doesn't have a RDY PR ... is
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just not something you care very much about, by construction. Post-release you
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can review open issues, but chances are your next milestone is already getting
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full :)
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Release Policy
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The goal is "early and often".
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Up to now we use only one branch, the `master` branch.
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- If `master` is unstable we don't release.
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- If the last release has a major bug, we:
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1. Fix the bug on `master`.
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2. Disable or remove any known risks present on `master`.
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3. Cut a release from `master`.
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This is a bit silly, but it works ok. And it keeps `master` from biting off
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more feature-creep than it can chew.
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See also: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/862
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