On Monday, 17 December 2012 at 05:29:23 UTC, SomeDude wrote:
On Sunday, 16 December 2012 at 22:43:13 UTC, David Nadlinger
wrote:
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
This can only work if there are very few releases, else one has
to patch all the branches since a bug has been discovered. If
you release once per month, you potentially have to patch 10 or
20 branches.
This is exactly to handle this kind of grunt work that computer
and software were invented.
