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Another movie pitch:
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 approved to lift the code freeze 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.
I am ramping a vehicle onto its roof in celebration
You are amazing, you beautiful lemmy stranger, you.
DO DODO DO DOO DOO. DO DODO DO DO
Merging all the feature branches in time is easy.
Having the project compile afterwards is hard.
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.
If by test you mean wait for customers to yell at us, it's super robust
The test suite takes 24 hours to run fully.
Merge/test/fix on a separate branch and then merge this into main when the freeze lifts?