Giuliano Colla schrieb:
> It turns out that maintaining the fixes branch is quite heavy and
> frustrating at the same time, because the code is in continuous
> evolution, and many fixes can't be applied, because the source has been
> changed in the meantime. So there's a lot of fruitless work. Attempt to
> apply a fix, verify that it can't be applied, investigate why, and
> discover that it should be applied on top of something which is still in
> progress, not yet stable, not yet finished, etc. IOW, not suitable for a
> stable branch.
Indeed, we know this from fpc :) What helps a little bit is if the trunk
developers keep in mind when fixing bugs that they could go to a fixes
branch and taking care of this by committing in small pieces, not mixing
new features and bug fixes.
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