On 02/16/2011 12:28 AM, Pieter Hintjens wrote: > You've perhaps missed the 'pull request' part of the proposal. Pull > requests apply to specific branches. The contributor of a change > explicitly makes a patch against _each_ version branch that he wishes > to support or fix. There is no back porting or forwards porting. In > effect the contributor becomes responsible for the code he writes, > more than the maintainer.
That's not going to fly IMO. Imagine you are a random developer and want to create a patch. You can either patch the stable, upstream the fix there, then patch the master, then upstream the patch there. On the other hand, you can patch the master a expect that the patch will eventually trickle down to the stable. Given that the latter requires half the work and that developers are (in general) lazy, I would expect everyone take that path, making stable branch little more than a simple tag on the master. In short, unless there's a maintainer actually willing to actively backport patches from the master (and so far I haven't seen anyone volunteering to do that) the whole discussion about stable is kind of pointless. Martin _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
