Bastien <b...@altern.org> writes: Hi Bastien, Achim
> Hi Martyn, > > Martyn Jago <martyn.j...@btinternet.com> writes: > >> As an infrequent committer to org-mode, I wonder if the maint branch is >> more pain than gain. > > It is a pain when too many things should happen on it. > > IMO It is a gain when we dedicate it to releases only. > > No pain should come out of introducing hotfix-* branches, > as they are transient branches. > > Now I'm off to a well-deserved bed :) I certainly appreciate the need to stabilize releases. But I did get to wondering lately if the original purpose of maint was kind of lost in the overall high-throughput repo activity. I'm a big fan of Git, and have started using it for non-version control activities, so I appreciate things can always be fine-tuned to suit the current situation. Thanks for the considered replies. Best, Martyn