Re: [RFC] 3.1 branching

On ons, 2008-09-24 at 21:26 +0200, Kinkie wrote:

> The "version X.Y.Z for all Z > W" approach means that it's not easy to
> tell what the state of a release is without knowing what W is for each
> X,Y.

Even then you don't know as the notion of something being stable is very
temporal in nature and often gets revoked as bugs is found.

> None of this has (or should have) any effect on the actual development
> cycle, it's just conventions.

Correct. Only the rules around when branching or merges to trunk may
take place has significant impact on development cycle. And I think we
are all leaning towards a more open approach there based on branch early
without blocking trunk.

Regards
Henrik