I thought we agreed no third branch. What we are discussing now is 0.20.4. Everything else is 0.20.5.
If 0.20.4 release is 0.20.4-dev minus some changes, but 0.20.5 (and 0.20.5-dev) is whatever went into 0.20.4 plus what was left out, then there is some temporary discontinuity on the branch at the release (elided commits) but that is immediately healed after the release when 0.20.5-dev is opened. So from the users point of view there is no discontinuity. Trouble with 0.20.4? Fix in 0.20.5-dev per usual. Or am I missing something? > From: Ryan Rawson <ryano...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: Vote on 0.20.3.1 > To: hbase-dev@hadoop.apache.org > Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 12:16 PM > If we made a 3rd branch we now have 3 hbase versions with 3 > distinct code lineages. Will we patch this new 0.20.4 version > as bugs come up?