stable branch (was: PATCH RFA: Add support for Go programming language)

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 06:42:54PM CET:
> Sorry, I've been swamped by some other tasks lately, and have not looked
> at this patch yet.  I also need to make good on my promise to split off
> a stable branch and 2.68.1 release, while applying feature patches like
> Go support onto master.

There is not much work to do for branching to happen.

git checkout -b stable 89ce53b3a0baafaccef80c2462bbed799169c759

then tell developers that patches good for 2.68.1 go in stable, rest
goes in master.  Stable may/should be merged into master.

You can postpone thinking about releases to later.  The only thing that
is better done now is ensuring that patches good for stable don't go
on top of patches introducing new stuff.

Hope that helps.  If you need doc patches ping me.

Thanks,
Ralf