Re: stable/2.12 and tagging of tarballs

[Graham Percival]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 03:56:25PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Wow, should have read those.  I guess you can pretty much do what you
> want, however, a few things really strike me as odd or unwise
> 
>    DON'T TOUCH STABLE/2.12.
>
> why create a "stable/2.12" branch and then not use it and do subsequent
> 2.12.x releases from master?

Oops, I forgot the particular context there.  The 2.12 release
caught almost everybody off guard, and in particular it pissed off
some of the translators.  IIRC there were some really obvious
non-translated parts of the docs, which made them look like
idiots, even though they'd been working quite a lot on having the
important stuff translated.

So there I was saying "DON'T TOUCH STABLE" so that they could
finish their work, and/or we could fix a few critical bugs, before
releasing 2.12.1  (in some ways, the first "real" 2.12 release).
It was really meant as a "we're in deep freeze mode" comment.  :)

Cheers,
- Graham