Re: branching

[Graham Percival]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:19:12AM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote:
> On 4/15/11 9:23 AM, "Graham Percival" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Great!  I'll make another unstable release tomorrow and merge it
> > into stable/2.14, and thereafter you can cherry-pick at will.
> > I'll make all future 2.13 releases from stable/2.14.
> 
> How shall we report issues with the unstable development version?

We won't.  The Bug Squad will ignore (well, reply to say that
they're not handling them) any bug reports about unstable.  They
will only deal with reports about official GUB releases.

> I think that's the major problem I see with branching stable.
> Should a bug report be filed with a tag "unstable", and a commit
> instead of a version?

If a developer wants to add an issue to the tracker, then sure, he
can include the commit revision rather than a version in the
issue.

Cheers,
- Graham