So when a CEP slips, do we have to create a 5.1-cep-N? >
No, you'd just rename it, easy to do in just one place. I really don't care, but the version would at least helps indicate what the branch is getting rebased off. > My personal view is that 5.0 should not be used for any resolved tickets - > they should go to 5.0-alpha1, since this is the correct release for them. > 5.0 can then be the target version, which makes more sense given it isn’t a > concrete release. > Each time, we don't know if the first release will be an alpha1 or if we're confident enough to go straight to a beta1. A goal with stable trunk would make the latter possible. And with the additional 5.0 label has been requested by a few to make it easy to search for what's new, this has been the simplest way.