On Sunday, 16 December 2012 at 22:18:14 UTC, SomeDude wrote:
This sounds to me like a bad idea. And indeed, I haven't heard of any other project doing this.
Having release branches is a common practice for many open source projects. For example, KDE creates a branch per minor release, with patch releases being made off that branch. LLVM also has a branch for each release.
David