If I may make a suggestion, coming from a place of ignorance. How about a stable branch that would be opt-in?
On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 15:29:53 +0200 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis: > > > It’s a little unfortunate that packages are developed together with > > everything else, because this means that there is no way for people to > > opt out of breaking changes until the next release without also opting > > out of getting any updates at all. > > It’s both a strength and a weakness I guess. The good thing is that we > can make changes that affect everything at once. The bad thing is what > you mention. > > We could use feature branches more, with the downside that they would > probably get little additional testing, precisely because one would have > to choose between features and packages. > > Thoughts? > > Ludo’. >
