Project Branches

There are two types of branches in the toolkit:

• Active Branch - This is a branch where active development is done. New features and enhancements can be added to this branch.
• Maintenance Branch - A maintenance branch for building maintenance releases for the toolkit. No new features or enhancements can be made to the maintenance branch. Maintenance branch is named with a "_m" postfix in the branch name to indicate that the branch is for maintenance. Only critical customer fixes can be delivered to this branch. If a fix is required to be made to the maintenance branch, the fix needs to goes through a review process:
  • Contributor / Committer creates a fix for the customer problem.
  • The contributor asks another committer to review the fix, to ensure the the fix is properly tested and implemented.
  • If the fix is good, the reviewer will add a +1 vote.
  • A fix cannot be delivered to the maintenance branch without a +1 vote from another committer.

Current Branches:

• develop -- active development
• v3.0.10x_m -- targeted for Streams 4.2.x FP
• streams_4.1 -- targeted for Streams 4.1.x FP
• streams_4.0 -- targeted for Streams 4.0.0 next available FP
• streams_3.2.1 -- targeted for Streams 3.2.1.x
• Sequencefile -- contains the HadoopReader, which reads text files, compressed text files, and sequence file. The reading is done in parallel if in a parallel region.
• bluemix -- Contains the com.ibm.streamsx.hdfs.bluemix toolkit for reading files via the WebHdfs REST APIs. This is particularly useful on bluemix.