1082859 - isolating early SDK drops, so Moz can develop along the way without breaking users

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Hello (Loop) :: General, defect, P5)

Description

[:shell escalante]

early drops may not work against production servers, so we don't want end-users breaking in nightly.  The first example of this is when we get an early drop with screen sharing API's - ~end November.

Comment 1

[:shell escalante]

validating with Adam that we just need to grab another project branch, like Fig - for these SDK development.  if yes - Maire or i will grab it.

Comment 2

[Adam Roach [:abr]]

Working in a twig seems reasonable for this, assuming that we need it only between the SDK drop and the server deployment. We can't take up one of the "temporary branches" semi-permanently.

If we need this on a more persistent basis, we probably want to consider a scheme in which we do something like putting two versions of the SDK in the tree, and varying behavior based on a pref. This would introduce quite a few more moving pieces, though.

Comment 3

[:shell escalante]

based on adam's feedback - how do we want to proceed?  we only will need to grab these for 6 weeks before their releases... which are 4 times/year.  is that ok to grab a twig for?

Comment 4

[Adam Roach [:abr]]

(In reply to sescalante from comment #3)
> based on adam's feedback - how do we want to proceed?  we only will need to
> grab these for 6 weeks before their releases... which are 4 times/year.  is
> that ok to grab a twig for?

That seems a bit on the frequent side. You're talking about needing a twig 24 weeks a year -- we're basically taking a twig out of commission about half the time. I'd ask the releng guys, but I think that's probably too much to ask for on an ongoing basis.

Comment 5

[Maire Reavy [:mreavy]]

I think we want to follow the process described here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering:ProjectBranchPlanning since basically we'd be asking for a branch for an indeterminate, extended period of time.

Comment 6

[:shell escalante]

follow up with rel eng

Comment 7

[:shell escalante]

Maire provided info needed - put the link on the webRTC wiki page under Development for when we need the info.