Due to management decision, a code freeze has been mandated to the main branch. 50 feature branches have accumulated waiting to be merged.
Management has now finally approved to lift the code freeze - but only for 24 hours. Will the poor engineering team manage to merge all feature branches in time?
Very easy: merge everything, fix after the feature freeze. It’s a feature freeze, not a bugfix freeze.
Edit: wait you said code freeze, my bad. Still, merge everything. If stuff doesn’t work after the freeze, management will unfreeze for fixes. Or they freeze a non-working product. Do stupid management, get stupid results. Not on me to make idiotic processes work.
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Due to management decision, a code freeze has been mandated to the main branch. 50 feature branches have accumulated waiting to be merged.
Management has now finally approved to lift the code freeze - but only for 24 hours. Will the poor engineering team manage to merge all feature branches in time?
Here’s one for a TV show.
In 2022, a crack quality assurance team was made redundant by a CTO for a botched product launch they didn’t commit.
These men promptly escaped from a maximally unstable job market to the LinkedIn underground.
Today, still wanted by recruiters, they survive as soldiers of fortune.
If you have a broken codebase, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the QA-team.
You are amazing, you beautiful lemmy stranger, you.
I am ramping a vehicle onto its roof in celebration
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Very easy: merge everything, fix after the feature freeze. It’s a feature freeze, not a bugfix freeze.
Edit: wait you said code freeze, my bad. Still, merge everything. If stuff doesn’t work after the freeze, management will unfreeze for fixes. Or they freeze a non-working product. Do stupid management, get stupid results. Not on me to make idiotic processes work.
Merging all the feature branches in time is easy.
Having the project compile afterwards is hard.
Merge/test/fix on a separate branch and then merge this into main when the freeze lifts?
Is there a robust test suite?
Merge, test, merge, test, patch, merge, test
Only some of the new code does. Unfortunately, most of the code base is 10 years old written in the good ol’ Anarchy Driven Programming paradigm.
The test suite takes 24 hours to run fully.