On Nov 2, 2014, at 4:18 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Nov 2014 23:03:59 -0700 Nex6|Bill <[email protected]> said:
> 
>> I see, E17 still used, i places like FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Bodhi  but E19 is
>> in “released” mode. so, what would be the the stable, unstable and dev
>> branches?
> 
> master == development and what becomes the next stable release.
> 
> tags == a bunch of tags indicating that revision number was used for that
> release.
> 
> branches == each stable release gets a branch - eg like enlightenment-0.17 ,
> enlightenment-0.18, enlightenment-0.19 ... same for efl, elementary etc.
> (efl-1.8, efl-1.9, efl-1.10, efl-1.11). these branches accumulate patches
> (mostly cherrypicked from mater commits) and then get releases like 1.11.2,
> 0.19.1, etc. etc.
> 
> it's a pretty simple system. master is the new hotness. branches are where
> stable releases live. tags are us ... tagging things that are released.
> 
> we have a schedule for releases for efl (not e):
> 
> https://phab.enlightenment.org/w/release_roadmap/
> 
> 12 week cycle.
> 
> -- 
> ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" --------------
> The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    [email protected]
> 


so; each “branch” E17, E18, E19 would be considered “stable” but the verious OS 
teams and packaging teams
are just being very conservative in staying with E17.  since its the sort of 
proven stable, and the dependancies 
may be easier to target.

-Nex6

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