> Even with official release you can apply a patch, that is not the point. > The point is that many people expect the release branches (and IMHO rightly > so) to be supposedly stable all the time, rather than being seriously > unstable most of the time and only converging to stability around the > official releases.
Possibly, but with our scheme it's the opposite: it's stable most of the time and series of patches are applied just before the releases... -- Eric Botcazou
