Not always. Some repos have a dev branch or a v0.5 compatibility branch, etc. I think that if you're looking to start working on the package, the first thing to do is get in contact with one of the authors (join the Gitter channel if they have one).
On Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 4:50:55 PM UTC-7, Kristoffer Carlsson wrote: > > I would say that if you want to contribute to a package you should be on > the latest master commit and work from there. > > On Friday, August 5, 2016 at 1:45:46 AM UTC+2, Eric Forgy wrote: >> >> I agree. Another consequence of v0.5 updates on master that are not >> tagged is that newbies, wanting to help, end up fixing things that are >> already fixed not realizing. I've done this a couple of times and it is >> frustrating. > >
