640510 - Close previous Hg branch when starting a new one

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Release Engineering :: Release Automation: Other, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(m-c) Bug 611030 (and (c-c) bug 631902) did it once manually.

This bug is to investigate automating
{
hg update -r <previous branch name>
hg commit --close-branch -m "Bug <nnn>; Closing old branch that is no longer used."

hg update -r default  [Or whatever needs to be done next, if any.]
}

This should happen if the previous branch is not yet closed only: not for each build tag before release of the new branch.

Comment 1

[Chris AtLee [:catlee]]

You're referring specifically to relbranches, correct?

Comment 2

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

I guess so (though I don't know all details about this):
'*_*_RELBRANCH' branches that are used to release new (minor) application versions.
See blocking bugs for examples of such branches.

Comment 3

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Mass move of bugs to Release Automation component.

Comment 4

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

This is so low priority that we're never going to get around to doing it. It's possible we may even get rid of relbranches altogether.