Vesa from what I have seen with libreoffice is this.
they have the master branch which is the latest and greatest next major
release bleeding edge stuff
then they keep 2 stable branches so they have 4.1 aand the new 4.2 branch.
Once 4.3 is release the 4.1 branch would be end of lifed.
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Vesa <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 03/24/2014 11:29 AM, Raine M. Ekman wrote:
> > There's the critical issue of mixing top and bottom posting. That
> > really needs to be stamped out... please, stick to the style of the
> > previous message and don't make it harder to read for the rest of us. :)
> >
> > As for branches, branching 1.0 off of master and only applying bug
> > fixes to it or something like that sounds like a sound strategy to me,
> > too.
> >
>
> Here's what I'm thinking: branch off stable-0.4 into two branches,
> stable-1.0 and master.
>
> Simple, easy, descriptive. Then stable-1.0 would only get bugfixes, and
> we could develop 1.1 in master.
>
> Then, stable 1.0 would only get bugfixes, and releases from that branch
> would be always named 1.0.x even if we're otherwise at 1.1 or 1.2. When
> 1.1 gets released, it would again also be branched to its own branch,
> stable-1.1, and then that branch would always spawn releases named 1.1.x.
>
> I think there's definitely merit in providing two separate branches of
> the software - one that stays more stable and only get bugfixes, and
> another that is more cutting edge. LMMS is a program that people use for
> production, and many people like to keep their production tools stable.
>
> The only thing to decide would be how long to support old branches...
> maybe like a year at max.? Or we could just wing it, take it as it
> comes, cross that bridge when we get there...
>
>
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