Integrator workflow, also known as ''Integration Manager Workflow'', is a method to handle source code contributions in work environments using

distributed version control In software development, distributed version control (also known as distributed revision control) is a form of version control in which the complete codebase, including its full history, is mirrored on every developer's computer. Compared to centra ...

Scenario

Frequently, in a distributed team, each developer has write access to their own public repository and they have read access to everyone else’s. There is also a dedicated repository, the ''blessed repository'', which contains the "reference" version of the project source code. To contribute to this, developers create their own public clone of the project and push their changes to those. Then, they request one or more maintainers of the blessed repository to pull in their changes.

Implementations

GitHub GitHub, Inc. () is an Internet hosting service for software development and version control using Git. It provides the distributed version control of Git plus access control, bug tracking, software feature requests, task management, continuous ...

Bitbucket Bitbucket is a Git (software), Git-based source code repository (version control), repository shared web hosting service, hosting service owned by Atlassian. Bitbucket offers both commercial plans and free accounts with an unlimited number of p ...

CodePlex CodePlex was a forge website by Microsoft. While it was active, it allowed shared development of open-source software. Its features included wiki pages, source control based on Mercurial, TFVC, Subversion or Git, discussion forums, issue trac ...

References

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