[dev] Horde 5?

Vilius Šumskas vilius at lnk.lt
Tue Feb 28 19:14:14 UTC 2012


> Not  as  my  vote  counts here,  but I think Michael's suggestion to branch
> stable  release  is  logical. At least it has a proven track record in
> Fedora   development.  What  Fedora  does  is  they  do development in
> "master"  development unstable branch (or  "develop",  or  whatever you
> wanna call it). After planning and major development ends they branch
> out   "next_stable_release"   from   "master".  Then  they  do all the
> alpha,     beta     and     RC     releases   in "next_stable_release"
> branch.  After  the  release,  all the bugfixes and minor features are
> applied  back to "next_stable_release" from "master". This way you end
> up  with  branches  for  every  major  release,  but that is not a big
> problem.  You  can  actually delete old unsupported branches if needed
> and still have all the log from master branch.

Thinking  about  this  even  further  I  like  it  even more. The less
"stable"  branch is behind "master" the less chance merge will catch a
conflict.

-- 
Best regards,
 Vilius



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