Next focus: PROCESS

SomeDude lovelydear at mailmetrash.com
Sun Dec 16 21:29:21 PST 2012


On Sunday, 16 December 2012 at 22:43:13 UTC, David Nadlinger 
wrote:
> On Sunday, 16 December 2012 at 22:18:14 UTC, SomeDude wrote:
>> This sounds to me like a bad idea. And indeed, I haven't heard 
>> of any other project doing this.
>
> Having release branches is a common practice for many open 
> source projects. For example, KDE creates a branch per minor 
> release, with patch releases being made off that branch. LLVM 
> also has a branch for each release.
>
> David

This can only work if there are very few releases, else one has 
to patch all the branches since a bug has been discovered. If you 
release once per month, you potentially have to patch 10 or 20 
branches.


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