>>>>> On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 19:52:01 +0200, Rudolf Schlatte said: > Cancel-Lock: sha1:dqYu7Py9JNAyZJWALyW1kLx3PD8= > > "Robert Goldman" <rpgold...@sift.info> > writes: > > > If stable seems bad, is there another name we could use to avoid renaming? > > Like maint for "maintenance"? > > > > I don't love maint, because it's too close to main, and it seems like main > > has an edge in familiarity if not in meaningfulness. > > > > legacy? > > > > Unless we can come up with something better than stable, it seems like the > > least-worst alternative. But there's all week to come up with something > > better! > > > > In the first email you said that the purpose of that branch was to > permit continuation of the 3.3 release series, so maybe call the branch > "v3.3"? That way, there can be multiple such branches without resorting > to "stable", "oldstable" etc. names.
Yes, that's the kind of name I meant. Or include the stableness in the name with something like "stable/3.3" (c.f. FreeBSD). -- Martin Simmons LispWorks Ltd http://www.lispworks.com/
