Thanks.  That's about what I thought, but it helps to have it from the source.

Peter Bloomfield <[email protected]> wrote:

>Hi Jack!
>
>On 09/26/2014 11:54:42 AM Fri, Jack wrote:
>> On 2014.09.01 11:35, Jack wrote:
>>> Good morning,
>>> 
>>> Gentoo is finally getting around to marking 2.5.1 as stable, but they are 
>>> asking for confirmation that 2.5.1 is really considered stable and not 
>>> development:
>>> 
>>>     Looks like 'master' branch is still the 2.4.x versions one:  
>>> https://git.gnome.org/browse/balsa/log/
>>> 
>>>     Is 2.5.x considered as stable by upstream? (in general, even numbers 
>>> are for development versions in "gnome" stuff)
>>> 
>>> Does git need some poking, and can I tell them it is sufficiently stable?
>> 
>> Can anyone answer this?
>
>There's not much currently going on in either master or the gtk3 branch, which 
>I guess means that 2.5.1 in gtk3 is quite stable. It still fails to build in a 
>git tree, because the address book editor still uses deprecated API, but that 
>wouldn't get in the way of a tarball build.
>
>BTW: Balsa doesn't subscribe to the odd/even convention, as far as I know, so 
>the numbering is no reason to view 2.5.1 as unstable.
>
>HTH!
>
>Peter
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