On 12/22/2012 10:39 AM, Jesse Phillips wrote: > On Friday, 21 December 2012 at 22:12:47 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> We plan to start building a new release on Sunday evening. To do so >> (pursuant to the embryonic process we're putting >> in place), at that time we'll create a new branch called "staging" for each >> of dmd, druntime, and phobos. >> >> All contributors - over the weekend please ping reviewers on what you >> believe are pull requests with a high >> importance*urgency product. Once we branch into staging, pull requests will >> only be merged into master. >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Andrei > > Is this the release for 2.061 which is being placed in staging? > > Pull requests which fix regressions and bugs should go into staging and be > made against staging.
I strongly recommend requiring that all bugs be first fixed in the development branch and then being pushed backwards through the version history. Quite a few projects follow this pattern based on the requirement that no fix can ever be accidentally left out of a future release. You never want someone to pick up (using made up version numbers) 3.4.2 to get a fix and later upgrade to 4.1.1 and find out it's not yet fixed in that release.
