Transitioning to the new Release Process

[Jesse Phillips]

On Thursday, 10 January 2013 at 15:51:13 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> My understanding was that staging is worked on only during the 
> (short) time span from initiating a new release and finalizing 
> that release.
>
> Andrei

I know, that is my general understanding of how staging would be 
used. This is a release branch in most described models.

However I think that extending that to a longer period isn't bad. 
But it does mean maintaining 3 branches (released, staging, dev). 
If we only want the usual short prep period, staging should die 
and we just branch into a Version branch (release branch) and tag 
when it is released. This would not need a transition period.