On Wed, 8 Jan 2014 09:26:50 +0100 (CET)
[email protected] wrote:
> I think we don't really have the resources to maintain 2 or 3
> branches.
> 

What if there were no -stable; -maintenance might only be used [in
critical situations] to avoid changing a -release after it has been
packaged and deployed. (So a user can distinguish between 0.31-release
and 0.31-release-P1 (Patch 1)).

> I far prefer to have the development tree always in good shape [snip]
> and be able to create a release whenever we want.
> 

Without a Release Candidate, development on -current must stop while
the -release is tested and packaged (and the packages are tested).

Hmm, can either of these methodologies tolerate non-trivial development?
For example, what if a developer(s) wished to extend GHDL such that
complex data structures could be traced?

[HDF5]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_Data_Format
[HDF Group]: http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/

Something like that (which, by the way, would have many interesting
attributes) might need a -research branch. 

Hmm, once the engineering process is designed, scripted and documented,
(assuming it's comprehensible and convenient) I wonder what the actual
administrative work-load would be like to maintain the project?

>...(and we now have a not trivial testsuite)...

Awesome! 

> If GHDL passes the test, it is in good shape.
> 
> I also have my private test suite, and I will test GHDL on it.
> 

private?

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