On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 6:40 PM, Marcus Agehall (nu med K-märkt fastighet och ny elcentral) @ Pike (-) developers forum <10...@lyskom.lysator.liu.se> wrote: > My personal stance is that as long as you don't break existing > APIs/features, backporting new ones is not a problem. Others may > disagree with this though.
That's not the whole truth. The general answer to "can I add to stable" is no. It can be added as an exception if discussed and the following is met: - The addition must be obviously safe. - It should add something that is _needed_ today. Not something that might be useful in some theoretical situation or large code cleanup. - It's checked in to the development branch before stable. Stable is a contract that should say to anyone using it that upgrades between minors are safe. Part of trying to do a release every month (in practise I predict around six successful release per year) is acctually to get stricter on this but also to make feature releases once per year. (Apparently the KOM-export script is broken again, so copy-pasting this to email. Will probably show up again whenever KOM-export gets fixed.) Regards, -- Peter Bortas
