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

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.

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Description

  • Create main branch in this repository
    • Set it as default branch
  • Keep canary branch as we have today
    • Alternatively have a canary/ folder which is a copy of nodejs/node with patches applied
    • Alternatively 2 keep the V8 canary as a v8-canary branch on nodejs/node and have it as a submodule here
  • Ensure Jenkins fetches the canary branch for relevant jobs
  • Use GitHub Actions to update the canary branch
  • Use GitHub Actions to open the major V8 upgrade PR on nodejs/node
  • Drop canary-base branch on nodejs/node and use patch files on this repository instead (need to experiment to ensure it doesn't worsen our workflow)
Dominant language
Shell
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Forks
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