Roy T. Fielding wrote:
I am kind of annoyed that a branch was done for 1.3.x before any release of 1.3.0. My opinion is that encourages folks to think of trunk as a dumping ground, which is fundamentally bad because trunk is the basis for collaboration. However, since Bill is the likely RM, I assume he has some plan in mind that I haven't considered.
As true as that misunderstanding might be ... we simply had several features which /are/ progressing, but needed a place to bring the 1.3.0-dev API to completion. You can love or hate the apr versioning rules, but they are the rules this project adopted - and rules that consumers came to trust. I don't think we'd get anywhere near 1.3.0-final if not for that branch.
