Restructure repository branches
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- git, github-actions, shell
- Domain
- build-system, ci-cd, devops
Research direction
Review the remaining checklist items for the main, canary, and canary-base branches, along with the Jenkins jobs and GitHub Actions workflow related to canary updates. Resolve the listed repository-layout alternatives before changing the cross-repository workflow. Done means Jenkins fetches canary, the major V8 upgrade PR is opened automatically, and canary-base is no longer needed if the patch-file approach works.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Description
- Create
mainbranch in this repository- Set it as default branch
- Keep
canarybranch as we have today- Alternatively have a
canary/folder which is a copy ofnodejs/nodewith patches applied - Alternatively 2 keep the V8 canary as a
v8-canarybranch onnodejs/nodeand have it as a submodule here
- Alternatively have a
- Ensure Jenkins fetches the
canarybranch for relevant jobs - Use GitHub Actions to update the
canarybranch - Use GitHub Actions to open the major V8 upgrade PR on
nodejs/node - Drop
canary-basebranch onnodejs/nodeand use patch files on this repository instead (need to experiment to ensure it doesn't worsen our workflow)
- Dominant language
- Shell
- Stars
- 466
- Forks
- 75
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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