On 20.01.2017, at 02:00, Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 6:49 PM, Jacob Champion <champio...@gmail.com> wrote: >> We branch off from the 2.4.25 tag. This is our low-risk 2.4.25.x patch line. >> There are no new features or large code changes to this branch, there are no >> refactorings or whitespace changes or huge cleanups; the only changes that >> land here are targeted bug fixes to 2.4.25. > > My fear here is that nearly nobody would ever end up using these patch > line releases, but we'd probably never know for sure.
Or adopt them, but never move off them, And the other question then becomes... for how long will that particular patch version receive updates? Or even backports of fixes that are much harder than in a newer version? How many patch release series are allowed to exist at the same time? Etc etc. I think this would turn into a huge burden, and cause confusion for users.
