Comment 2 for bug 995604
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| Monty Taylor (mordred) wrote Re: use symbolic-ref from gerrit to provide moving codename targets | #2 |
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Use cases:
- soren would like to develop something based on "folsom" He would like to start developing that thing before folsom is released, so he would like to point his automated testing scripts to grab the folsom code base, build it, test it and deploy it. When folsom moves to milestone-proposed, his testing has to change and now pull milestone-proposed instead of master - although there is no technical signal to indicate this to him. Similarly, when it is released, stable/folsom is now the thing he would like to grab. If the opening of the folsom dev cycle had begun with the creation of a symbolic-ref to master, then further things interested in the thing called folsom could just follow that.
- Similar to debian, but opposite - in other cases one might want to pull "stable" - without specific knowledge of what the latest letter-based release might have been, and would like that to change whenever the latest stable thing is released.