On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 11:18:17AM +0200, Lars Schneider wrote: > Thanks for the explanation! I looked at the Git release calendar [1] and > realized that 2.14-rc0 is scheduled for this Thursday. My assumption was > that either on this date 2.14 will be cut from the tip of master or master > would not change significantly after the rc0 date until the 2.14 release.
Yeah, certainly forking off a 2.14-rc branch would be a reasonable way to do the release management. It just happens to not be the way we do it. One nice thing about keeping "master" as the stabilizing release-candidate branch is that it encourages more people to run it (versus having people manually switch to building a 2.14-rc branch). -Peff
