We have a deployed branch. It doesn't get merged into master until it gets reviewed... the technical debt got too big so it never gets reviewed and we just keep branching off deployed

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 69 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Yes, we've had first master branch, but what about second master branch?

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Ah yes, by the end of the week we will have achieved full apotheosis: master-final-v3-deployed-2025_08_01-usethisone

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 41 points 3 days ago (1 children)

jesus

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He can't help you. Y'all need Linus.

[–] TunaLobster@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What's he going to do? Drop commits? /s

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 8 points 3 days ago

He drops commits but keeps on forgetting
What he wrote down, CI goes so loud
He tags the release but it won't go out
E2es choking now, pipeline' jokin' now
Clock's run out, time's up, over, blaow.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

Well, when you said "we have a deployed branch", you could just have stopped there. All the rest is just what happens after you decide to rename your master branch.

[–] ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

We build off develop and only update master once a year or so. Our company also pays 4 V&V engineers, compared to 9 software devs.

After a release cycle, we update master. Master has never, never been built by itself.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 9 points 3 days ago

Depends on the field you're in. At my previous company to release a new system for internal use only I had to go through 19 validations(each one 50-100 pages of manual tests). None of it had real source control except uploading final zip of files(no source code, just the enable files).

I wrote all the files, wrote all the test cases, wrote all the documentation, executed everything and wrote most of the reports. They just fired me last week so hope they have fun when they need to update something....

[–] mobotsar@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'm a software engineer, and I don't even know what a v&v engineer is.

[–] Yoddel_Hickory@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

Verification & validation