2 research outputs found
Cherry-Picking of Code Commits in Long-Running, Multi-release Software
This paper presents Tartarian, a tool that supports maintenance of software
with long-running, multi-release branches in distributed version control
systems. When new maintenance code, such as bug fixes and code improvement, is
committed into a branch, it is likely that such code can be applied or reused
with some other branches. To do so, a developer may manually identify a commit
and cherry pick it. Tartarian can support this activity by providing commit
hashtags, which the developer uses as metadata to specify their intentions when
committing the code. With these tags, Tartarian uses dependency graph, that
represents the dependency constraints of the branches, and Branch Identifier,
which matches the commit hashtags with the dependency graph, to identify the
applicable branches for the commits. Using Tartarian, developers may be able to
maintain software with multiple releases more efficiently.Comment: 5 page
Open-Source Projects and their Collaborative Development Workflows
For teams using distributed version control systems, the right collaborative
development workflows can help maintaining the long-term quality of project
repositories and improving work efficiency. Despite the fact that the workflows
are important, empirical evidence on how they are used and what impact they
make on the project repositories is scarce. Most suggestions on the use of
workflows are merely expert opinions. Often, there is only some anecdotal
evidence that underpins those advices. As a result, we do not know what
workflows are used, how the developers are using them, and what impact do they
have on the project repositories. This work investigates the various
collaborative development workflows in eight major open-source projects,
identifies and analyses the workflows together with the structures of their
project repositories, discusses their similarities and differences, and lays
out the future works.Comment: 3 pages, ASE 2019 Late Breaking Result