Next focus: PROCESS

[SomeDude]

On Monday, 17 December 2012 at 17:45:12 UTC, David Nadlinger 
wrote:
> On Monday, 17 December 2012 at 17:31:45 UTC, foobar wrote:
>> Huh?
>> Both LLVM and KDE are developed on *subversion* and as such 
>> their work-flows are not applicable. Not to mention that KDE 
>> is vastly different in concept and goals than a programming 
>> language.
>>
>> Subversion is conceptually very different from git and its 
>> model imposes practical restrictions that are not relevant for 
>> git, mostly with regards to branches, merging, etc. Actions 
>> which are first class and trivial to accomplish in git. This 
>> is analogous to designing highways based on the speed 
>> properties of bicycles.
>
> Guess what, I know that. The post by SomeDude just claimed that 
> release branches in general are impractical and not used by 
> open source projects, which is wrong.
>
> David

I was actually correct, saying that it can only work with very 
few releases, and indeed, for KDE, there are at most 2 releases 
per year and usually less.
For instance, the 4.10 is scheduled to span from october 2012 to 
july 2013, with numerous patches and corrective releases in 
between. So it's roughly the same release process as the one 
branch/year I advocated.

And it's not the same at all as creating one branch every month.