Freeze release & frozen release notification

[nassimseddiki]

Hi!

It would be useful for our QA team to mark a release as 'frozen', a command like :

twgit release freeze

When checking out (or merging into) a frozen release branch, the user would be notified :

twgit release start
Switched to branch 'release-x.x.x'
(i) Local branch 'release-x.x.x' up-to-date with remote 'origin/release-x.x.x'.
(i) 'release-x.x.x' is Frozen.

The idea is to be able to identifiy, on a given release branch, the commits that were performed after the release was frozen, through a simple git log or even a twgit command (twgit release list after_freeze).

What do you think?

Thanks

[geoffroy-aubry]

Very interesting :-)
We cannot block manual git commit and git push on release branch, but "twgit release freeze" could add a technical commit for tracking purpose.
Indeed, commands "twgit release start", "twgit feature merge-into-release", "twgit release list", … could make use of this.

[nassimseddiki]

Oh we agree, the frozen state would not block any merge into a release. It would only be informative :)

I was wondering if the freeze command would create a commit or a tag. A commit involves some code modification doesn't it? But a tag may break the release finish/start process?

Anyway, glad you find that interesting :)

[geoffroy-aubry]

One possibility to automate: http://git-scm.com/2010/08/25/notes.html

$ git notes --ref=twgit add -m 'YYYYMMDD, frozen' 0385bcc3
$ git push origin refs/notes/twgit
$ git log --show-notes=twgit

[nassimseddiki]

Fantastic :) I'll start with that !