On 9/16/2013 19:17, Earnie Boyd wrote: > > IMO, trunk is a stable branch that all other branches evolve from. > You create a working branch named for the next release that all work > is done to and is unstable up until the call for testing. After the > call for testing only bug fixes for that release occur that are found > within the soon to be released branch. Just before releasing that > working branch is merged into trunk and tagged for the release. A new > working branch is created from the merged trunk to continue > development. If there is a bug fix for the previous release you use > the previous working branch to make the bug fix, merge that fix back > to trunk, tag the trunk with the bug fix version, then merge trunk > with the new working branch. In this way, trunk becomes the master of > the work and should always be usable regardless of the stage of > development. The only time trunk should be a working branch is for a > new project where there is no release. >
What? No, you have it backwards, trunk is where all development work will take place, unless the code in question is known to be broken work-in-progress code. There is already a /stable branch code, we don't need another stable branch, maybe another /stable/latest to point to the latest stable as new releases are made. What mingw-w64 needs is a more frequent release schedule. When gcc-4.8 was released, it required trunk version. v3 should have been released then. Trunk was already fairly stable at the point, except everyone was complacent and the schedule slipped. Still waiting for a test report from Erik before the final can be released.
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