Richard Heck wrote: > We always have people who continue with the previous series, for one > reason or another. I don't see any reason to deprive them of bug-fixes > we already have.
Well, we need to avoid that a fix to a minor problem creates a major regression. I am a big fan of backporting fixes to the stable branch where it is sensible, but to each backport there is a risk attached that we can't quantify. IMO the most important property of the stable branch should be that users can _always_ upgrade from version x.y.n to x.y.n+1 without even thinking whether this might cause a problem. Therefore I do not tend to think in terms of depriving users from bug fixes, but the other way round: Unless I have strong evidence that a bug fix is harmless I would not backport it. This might look awkward at first sight. Maybe it is only understandable if you already were the one who created a major problem by backporting a minor bugfix (Unfortunately I know that situation far too well). Georg
