On Jan 10 2014 6:39 PM, Chris Morley wrote: >> >> Robert Ellenberg's circular arc blend branch is a wonderful example >> of >> this workflow. Unfortunately master is currently frozen for the 2.6 >> release, so Robert's work has to wait for the creation of the 2.6 >> branch >> before it can move ahead. >> > > When did 2.6 get frozen? I don't remember any announcement. > If 2.6 is frozen then why is there not a 2.6 branch for stabilization > now > and then master can be open for development again. > I don't understand why we would ever freeze master. > > If it is frozen does that mean UB3 and ja are not being merged in > 2.6? > Is that official now?
This got me to thinking... What does "official" even mean these days. Once we have a 1) a branch master, and 2) a plan, Then it makes sense that it is whatever they decide (and hopefully with some community feedback, but they are the one doing the work). The discussion on the meaning of the master branch is good. How stable master is, is always a good question. My 2c is that it is good to keep the master as stable as possible with no guarantees -- ie. Do NOT commit things things that are known to be seriously gefect in the master branch (that is what special feature and test branches are for), but it is still a development branch (the latest and greatest - not guaranteed to work). I also agree that it is god to keep release branches to stabilize and bugfix, but there should be some indication of end of life for support. How long will 2.4.* and/or 2.5.* be supported once 2.6.0 comes out? That is roughly how several of the projects I have worked with did their thing. EBo -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
