A (un)stable idea?

[Walter Bright]

Heywood Floyd wrote:
> I think most non-trivial software projects keep one branch that is the "sand
> box"-branch where new features are tried out, and one branch where special
> care is taken to keep it stable. Now, this setup doesn't mean that the
> software will be bug free. The _key_ here is, that once you label a piece of
> software as "testing" or "experimental", bugs are ok! In fact, bugs are to be
> expected! No one can complain! (And if they do, you say "hey, chillax dude,
> it's experimental!")

We do that. There's D1, which gets maintenance and bug fixes only, and D2, which 
has been getting aggressive new features.