I put a task in JIRA to "Move off of GitFlow" and during the working group we decided that this should be opened up for discussion on the Dev list.
Concretely, I'm proposing merging "develop" into "master" and removing the "develop" branch. If I don't hear any anything "nay"s in the next day or so, I'm going to go ahead and perform this. >From the Jira Ticket: Gitflow on an Apache project is a bit annoying. I propose we follow the pattern of other Apache Projects (eg. NiFi, Spark, Accumulo) and have master (the default branch) contain the latest major release line under development. This would have a couple immediate benefits: 1. As committers, we have to manually pester contributors to close their pull requests after we merge their PRs. Instead we can use the GitHub "closes #<issue>" semantics to automatically close the PR after a merge. 2. As a community, we would be more aligned with other conventions used in Apache projects. 3. As developers, we have to be (slightly) more mindful where we point other developers. We have to make a point of saying "the 'develop' branch... not that default one" (I concede I'm really reaching for the last point ) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RYA-164
