Are the committers familiar with git-flow? http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ https://github.com/nvie/gitflow
Having used it at work for closed-source projects, I recommend it as the script support is nice, and it provides a decent branching model that "just works." While we don't use github's automatic merges, it does play nicely with the github pull request system (perhaps less relevant for an apache project). I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work just as well for open source projects. Cheers, Eli
