Geir,
Are you intending that development cease on the HEAD? Experience with
other projects suggests that people may get confused and commit there
anyway...
A solution adopted by a number of projects is to create a branch only when
attempting to stabilize a release - development can continue on the HEAD,
but only those changes specifically intended for the release should go into
that branch. It's the opposite of the way that branches are used in closed
development shops, but it seems to minimize confusion.
- Sam Ruby
