Or perhaps, cur(rent) and next. > On Mar 24, 2023, at 7:54 AM, Alex Aycinena <alex.aycin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 'Stable' seems weird because it is where all the big changes will go in the > future. How about 'Primary' for what is now 'Master' and then you change > 'Maint' as you suggest? > > Alex > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 7:18 PM Brian Rater <blrn...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Future? >> >> On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 8:57 PM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: >> >>> We're 3 days away from releasing 5.0 and so 4 days away from shuffling >>> the branches. Absent any objections I intend to rename the current "master" >>> to "stable" and make it the default branch on Github. Bugfixes and >>> minor-to-medium features can go to stable. I'll rename maint to >>> archive/maint so that nobody is tempted to commit to it any more. >>> >>> We have a little time to discuss the medium-to-major branch name. We >>> don't need it until someone has a medium-to-major feature branch to merge >>> in. While "unstable" is the logical opposite of "stable" it's also shares >>> too many letters, though unlike "main" and "maint" at least the extra >>> letters are upfront so you're less likely to get bitten by completion. I'm >>> inclined toward "development". "devel" would be OK if spell-check didn't >>> keep trying to turn it into "level". >>> >>> Regards, >>> John Ralls >>> >>> >>>> On Nov 18, 2022, at 9:08 AM, john <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: >>>> >>>> We could pinch from Debian and use stable, testing, and unstable, where >>> testing is the alpha/beta pre-major-release weeklies. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> John Ralls >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Nov 18, 2022, at 7:55 AM, Geert Janssens < >>> geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I'm fine with just doing the simple name change for our two primary >>> branches as it's the option of least effort. >>>>> >>>>> I'd rather have a different name than "main" though. It's a bit >>> ambiguous and like "master" suggesting this branch is somehow more >>> important than the other long-term branch "maint". I'd rather have names >>> that help guide contributors to the right branch to work from. I don't >>> think there's a silver bullet here though, but some names may give more of >>> a hint than others. Some suggestions: >>>>> >>>>> * "current" vs "future" as shorthands for "current-release-series" or >>> "future-release-series" >>>>> * "maintenance" ("maint") vs "development" ("devel") >>>>> * "stable" vs "development" >>>>> >>>>> That said, I'm also very interested in the single branch model as >>> alternative. Discussion on that is for another message. >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> >>>>> Geert >>>>> >>>>> Op maandag 14 november 2022 20:59:26 CET schreef john: >>>>>>> On Nov 14, 2022, at 11:11 AM, Alex Aycinena <alex.aycin...@gmail.com >>>> >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> how about a simple change, like calling it 'main' rather than >>>>>>> 'master' and keeping the existing pattern for branches. >>>>>> >>>>>> That would be OK as long as long as the two names aren't similar. >>> main and >>>>>> stable would be OK; with main and maint one is far too likely to do >>>>>> something to the wrong branch. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> John Ralls >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> gnucash-devel mailing list >>>>>> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >>>>>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> gnucash-devel mailing list >>>> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >>>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnucash-devel mailing list >>> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >>> >> > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
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