On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Ryan Ollos <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Branko Čibej <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 07.05.2013 22:30, [email protected] wrote:
>> > Author: brane
>> > Date: Tue May  7 20:30:34 2013
>> > New Revision: 1480061
>> >
>> > URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1480061
>> > Log:
>> > * installer/README.rst: Bring the note about using the
>> --system-site-packages
>> >    option with virtualenv from the 0.5 branch back to trunk.
>>
>> I happened to notice that the installation instructions on trunk were
>> out of date with regard to the latest release. That made my hair stand
>> on end. :)
>>
>> I suggest that the normal process for updating release branches should
>> be to make the change on trunk /first/, and then merge it onto the
>> relevant release branch. If we do it this way, mishaps like this one
>> cannot happen; and it's even more important to do this for bug fixes
>> than documentation fixes.
>>
>
> Thank you for fixing that. I completely agree that changes should be made
> on the trunk and then merged into the release branch. That is the process I
> usually follow, but I must have not have been paying enough attention to
> what I was doing in this instance.
>
>
Similarly, the RELEASE_NOTES on the trunk are out of sync with those on the
0.5-stable branch (caused by my committing to the 0.05-stable branch rather
than the trunk), an issue which I'll fix now.

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