[Bioc-devel] Best practice on commit

[James W. MacDonald]

This was recently discussed:

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2018-February/012875.html

On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 4:10 AM, Egon Willighagen <
egon.willighagen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Nicolas,
>
> after doing a bit of work on the BridgeDbR package this weekend, I was
> wondering exactly the same thing. I prefer small patches, so that I can
> easily link the change with the commit message and have related changes
> together (and fairly, it allows me to see when I actually work on what
> (#academicTimeReporting)... But previously I learned that when you push
> something to the repository, you should bump the question, so currently I
> do this for every change I made, leaving a ridiculous number of minor
> release and really short NEWS entries...
>
> Working in a branch and when only bumping the version number just before
> the merge into master makes a lot of sense to me.
>
> Can some senior developer and/or gatekeeper confirm that that is acceptable
> commit practice?
>
> Egon
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 8:24 PM, Nicolas Descostes <
> nicolas.descostes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  Dear Bioconductor community,
> >
> > When developing further a package, is the best practice to create a
> branch
> > and bump the version when a full new feature is merged or to stay on the
> > master without bumping when committing temporarily? More generally, When
> do
> > you usually bump a version?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Nicolas
> >
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